Calls are growing for the U.S. to end arms transfers to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) after reports of horrific slaughter in Sudan this week by the UAE-backed Rapid Support Forces (RSF).

On Sunday, the paramilitary force took control of el-Fasher, which was the Sudan Armed Forces’s (SAF) last major outpost in Darfur. The forces stormed the city, displacing tens of thousands and killing an estimated 2,000 people in door-to-door killings, executions, and a massacre at the Saudi Maternity Hospital.

The slaughter of civilians comes on the backdrop of what is already the world’s largest humanitarian catastrophe amid the country’s bloody civil war, which has displaced 13 million people and killed tens of thousands.

RSF’s takeover of el-Fasher and scenes of mass slaughter renewed calls for

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