A Powerful Family Army Is Forming in Eastern Libya

Politics, Geopolitics & Conflict The Sudanese government has accused the UAE of supplying weapons to the rival paramilitary force with whom the government has been engaged in a bloody civil war for over a year–an accusation the UAE denies. A shouting match erupted at a UNSC meeting, during which a Sudanese official said they had evidence that the UAE was getting weapons to the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).

In Libya, eastern strongman Khalifa Haftar has named his son, Saddam Haftar, as the new chief of the Haftar-controlled…