{"id":199693,"date":"2025-06-07T01:42:24","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T23:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/the-dismissal-of-sudans-case-against-the-uae-exposes-the-limits-of-international-law\/"},"modified":"2025-06-07T01:42:24","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T23:42:24","slug":"the-dismissal-of-sudans-case-against-the-uae-exposes-the-limits-of-international-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/the-dismissal-of-sudans-case-against-the-uae-exposes-the-limits-of-international-law\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dismissal of Sudan&#8217;s Case Against the UAE Exposes the Limits of International Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"85\">On 5 May, the <a href=\"https:\/\/lens.civicus.org\/international-court-of-justice-offers-hope-of-rules-based-order\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> International Court of Justice <\/a> (ICJ) dismissed a case brought by the Sudan government against the United Arab Emirates (UAE), alleging violations of the Genocide Convention due to the UAE\u2019s alleged funding and arming of Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militias in Sudan\u2019s ongoing civil war. The Court determined it lacked jurisdiction due to the UAE\u2019s previously established reservation to the treaty\u2019s dispute resolution mechanism. This procedural decision effectively terminates&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506060357.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>On 5 May, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) dismissed a case brought by the Sudan government against the United Arab Emirates (UAE), alleging violations of the Genocide Convention due to the UAE\u2019s alleged funding and arming of Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militias in Sudan\u2019s ongoing civil war. The Court determined it lacked jurisdiction due [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":199694,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00670549:84f36cb2cad4b79de9fa7813547d97b6:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[258,256,6683,7350,10481,4337,7077,10239,257,254,1613,8105,3779],"class_list":["post-199693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-case","tag-dismissal","tag-exposes","tag-international","tag-law","tag-limits","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan-news","tag-sudans","tag-uae"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00670549:84f36cb2cad4b79de9fa7813547d97b6:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199693","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=199693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}