{"id":184733,"date":"2024-11-16T10:58:38","date_gmt":"2024-11-16T08:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-french-weapons-found-in-sudan-war-zone-despite-arms-embargo-says-amnesty\/"},"modified":"2024-11-16T10:58:38","modified_gmt":"2024-11-16T08:58:38","slug":"sudan-french-weapons-found-in-sudan-war-zone-despite-arms-embargo-says-amnesty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-french-weapons-found-in-sudan-war-zone-despite-arms-embargo-says-amnesty\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: French Weapons Found in Sudan War Zone Despite Arms Embargo, Says Amnesty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\"><em> French-made military equipment fitted to armoured vehicles from the United Arab Emirates is reportedly being used by Sudan&#8217;s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in violation of a UN arms embargo in the Darfur region. <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">An <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amnesty.org\/en\/latest\/news\/2024\/11\/sudan-french-manufactured-weapons-system-identified-in-conflict-new-investigation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">investigation<\/a> by Amnesty&#8217;s found that the Galix system, a defence technology designed by Lacroix Defense in partnership with KNDS France, was mounted on Nimr Ajban armoured vehicles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"14\">The rights group on Thursday shared photos of destroyed vehicles fitted with the system.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">&#8220;Our&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202411150317.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Sudan\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/sudan\/\">Sudan<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>French-made military equipment fitted to armoured vehicles from the United Arab Emirates is reportedly being used by Sudan&#8217;s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in violation of a UN arms embargo in the Darfur region. An investigation by Amnesty&#8217;s found that the Galix system, a defence technology designed by Lacroix Defense in partnership with KNDS France, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":184734,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn07.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00120268:aad086b74e1e336d93d183d07dc315fd:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[258,256,3023,7008,16054,410,257,254,4708,1613,6618,5122,7073],"class_list":["post-184733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-amnesty","tag-arms","tag-embargo","tag-french","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-war","tag-weapons","tag-zone"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn07.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00120268:aad086b74e1e336d93d183d07dc315fd:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}