April 30 (Reuters) – The United Arab Emirates has referred 13 defendants and six companies to the State Security Court over an alleged attempt to move ammunition through UAE territory to the Sudanese army, state news agency WAM reported on Thursday.
Prosecutors said the shipment was intercepted before transfer by private aircraft and linked the procurement arrangements to a committee chaired by Sudan’s army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, WAM added.
UAE authorities said they intercepted millions of rounds of ammunition at an airport in 2025 that were being illegally transferred to Sudan’s army, a report by the WAM news agency said, though the Sudanese Armed Forces rejected the report as a fabrication at the time.
(Reporting by Enas Alashray and Ahmed Tolba; Writing by Tala Ramadan; Editing by Toby Chopra)
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