{"id":8444,"date":"2025-07-12T19:18:34","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T17:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/?p=8444"},"modified":"2025-07-12T20:38:35","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T18:38:35","slug":"der-schattenfuerst-von-abu-dhabi-wie-trump-und-mansour-sudan-zum-schlachtfeld-machten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/en\/der-schattenfuerst-von-abu-dhabi-wie-trump-und-mansour-sudan-zum-schlachtfeld-machten\/","title":{"rendered":"The Shadow Prince of Abu Dhabi - How Trump and Mansour Turned Sudan into a Battleground"},"content":{"rendered":"

It's the story of a man who preferred to remain invisible. A man with a quiet voice but immense power. In Europe he's known as the owner of Manchester City, the discreet Emirati who poured billions into stadiums, players, and trophies. But while the stands roar with applause, elsewhere there is another kind of silence \u2013 a silence in which massacres take place, drones buzz overhead, and cities burn. Behind the glamour lies a world of shadows \u2013 and Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed al-Nahyan is its architect. <\/p>\n\n\n

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Long before the Sudanese civil war reached global awareness, the most important man on the battlefield was not in Khartoum but in Abu Dhabi. Mansour, Vice President of the United Arab Emirates and master over billions in Mubadala\u2019s sovereign wealth fund, had already chosen who he would support in this war: Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, known as Hemeti, the leader of the Rapid Support Forces. A man who once carried out atrocities on behalf of the regime in Darfur, later established himself as a parallel general \u2013 and with backing from the Gulf became the executioner of a nation. The ties between Abu Dhabi and Hemeti stretch back for years. Hemeti\u2019s gold-trading enterprise based in Dubai financed his militia, his family network held accounts in Emirati banks, and his trips to Abu Dhabi were not diplomatic visits but strategy sessions. The company Al Junaid, through which millions flowed from gold sales, was not just an economic hub but part of a system: a militarily centralized but economically fragmented militia network controlled by commanders funded in Dubai and supplied from Abu Dhabi. And when the war escalated in April 2023, Abu Dhabi was ready. From a military airstrip in the desert of Chad, officially run by NGOs as a \"field hospital,\" weapons were regularly forwarded to the RSF under cover of humanitarian aid: ammunition, armored vehicles, reconnaissance drones. Flight after flight, target after target \u2013 logistically guaranteed, financed by Emirati funds, politically shielded by silence. The masterminds on the ground: Hemeti\u2019s brother Abdel Rahim Hamdan Dagalo, his \"operational head\" commanding campaigns in West Darfur and held responsible for the El Geneina massacres, now under US sanctions. Or Ali Yagoub Gibril, RSF commander in West Darfur, whose units carried out ethnic cleansing against the Massalit communities. Or Abu Daraa, a harsh field commander in Central Darfur, known for arbitrary killings and alliances with Arab tribal militias in Jebel Marra. Even the name Musa Hilal resurfaces, Hemeti\u2019s former rival \u2014 the old Janjaweed leader Mansour once protected before discarding. What joins these men is not only the blood on their hands but the money in their accounts \u2013 and their loyalty to the Gulf war axis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n