{"id":224560,"date":"2026-02-21T01:00:46","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T23:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-gold-power-and-influence-how-the-uae-is-shaping-sudans-war\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T01:00:46","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T23:00:46","slug":"sudan-gold-power-and-influence-how-the-uae-is-shaping-sudans-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-gold-power-and-influence-how-the-uae-is-shaping-sudans-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: Gold, Power and Influence &#8211; How the UAE Is Shaping Sudan&#8217;s War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"62\"><em> From the Red Sea to the Sahel, the United Arab Emirates has quietly but steadily expanded its footprint across Africa. What began as commercial engagement &#8211; in ports, logistics and commodities &#8211; has evolved into something more strategic. Nowhere is that more visible than in Sudan, where the Emirates stand accused of playing a decisive role in a brutal war. <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Since fighting erupted in 2023 between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rfi.fr\/en\/tag\/uae\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UAE<\/a> has faced growing scrutiny over&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602200494.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>From the Red Sea to the Sahel, the United Arab Emirates has quietly but steadily expanded its footprint across Africa. What began as commercial engagement &#8211; in ports, logistics and commodities &#8211; has evolved into something more strategic. Nowhere is that more visible than in Sudan, where the Emirates stand accused of playing a decisive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":224561,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[258,256,4644,10816,257,7047,17897,254,4708,1613,8105,3779,6618],"class_list":["post-224560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-gold","tag-influence","tag-news","tag-power","tag-shaping","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-sudans","tag-uae","tag-war"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/224560","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=224560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}