EU foreign ministers have imposed a ban on Sudan’s gold trade in a bid to curb financing of its civil war – but they ignored MEPs’ demands to designate a militia accused of genocide as a terror group.
EU leaders announced more than €800m in new aid pledges to help the victims of Sudan’s three year civil war, at a summit on Wednesday, but there is still no end to the war in sight.
A summit on Sudan’s future, jointly hosted by the EU on Wednesday, will gather dozens of the African country’s civilian political leaders as its civil war enters its fourth year.
The EU says it has challenged the UAE over its role in Sudan’s civil war, despite being in trade talks with Abu Dhabi.