Several social media accounts linked to Sudan's Rapid Support Forces (RSF) appear to be operating from the United Arab Emirates, Middle East Eye has found.
In recent days, X, formerly known as Twitter, has rolled out a feature that allows users to see where an account is based and from which region it connects to the X app from.
A number of accounts of figures linked to, or supportive of, the Sudanese paramilitary and its affiliated institutions are based in the UAE, according to this new feature.
These include the account of the interior ministry of the Government of Peace and Unity, the recently created parallel administration backed by the RSF.
Gony Mustafa Abubakr Sharif, the figure chosen by the parallel government to represent it at the United Nations, also runs his account from the Emirates.
