{"id":187880,"date":"2025-01-04T02:19:57","date_gmt":"2025-01-04T00:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-the-uaes-malign-role-in-sudan-war-cant-be-sportswashed-away\/"},"modified":"2025-01-04T02:19:57","modified_gmt":"2025-01-04T00:19:57","slug":"sudan-the-uaes-malign-role-in-sudan-war-cant-be-sportswashed-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-the-uaes-malign-role-in-sudan-war-cant-be-sportswashed-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: The UAE&#8217;s Malign Role in Sudan War Can&#8217;t Be &#8216;Sportswashed&#8217; Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\"><em> The US National Basketball Association recently concluded a tournament sponsored by the UAE-owned Emirates Airlines, the same UAE that has been accused by a United Nations Panel of Experts of providing arms to Sudan&#8217;s brutal militia, the Rapid Support Forces. <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">Listen to this article 6 min Listen to this article 6 min The National Basketball Association (NBA) might just be the world champion in &#8220;sportswashing&#8221; the reputations of the most egregious regimes on the planet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">The NBA&#8217;s problematic&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202501030418.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>The US National Basketball Association recently concluded a tournament sponsored by the UAE-owned Emirates Airlines, the same UAE that has been accused by a United Nations Panel of Experts of providing arms to Sudan&#8217;s brutal militia, the Rapid Support Forces. Listen to this article 6 min Listen to this article 6 min The National Basketball [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":187881,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[258,256,50327,257,8225,254,50328,4708,1613,35775,6618],"class_list":["post-187880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-malign","tag-news","tag-role","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sportswashed","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-uaes","tag-war"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187880","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=187880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}