Prime Minister Mark Carney will travel to the Unite d Arab Emirates next week, as both that country and Canada face questions over alleged links to actrocities in Sudan.

The UAE is said to be supporting the paramilitary Rapid Support Force (RSF) in Sudan's civil war, while Ottawa is under the microscope over the reported presence of Canadian-made armoured vehicles in that same conflict.

The RSF has carried out gruesome massacres and other atrocities including mass rapes, over the past two weeks in Sudan, while rights groups question Ottawa's friendly relations with the UAE.

Yet there is no mystery about Canada's interest in the Gulf nation, which has has enjoyed great diplomatic and commercial success in the 2020s, most recently winning the Trump administration’s approval to buy the

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