Is the UK playing a double game in Sudan and Somalia?

"These decisions and moves by the UK, say analysts, raise doubts about whether its words are in keeping with its actions in the Horn of Africa. Amgad Fareid Eltayeb, a Sudanese policy analyst, said the UK's credibility is increasingly judged by the risks it is willing, or unwilling, to take. When people believe your words and your actions diverge, they stop treating you as a broker and start treating you as an interest manager, he told Al Jazeera."

"In Sudan, earlier reports show how the UK government opted for what internal documents describe as the least ambitious approach to end the bloodshed, even as mass killings by the RSF mounted in Darfur, including around el-Fasher. Eltayeb argues that this has led the UK to be viewed not as a marginal or distracted actor, but as a central one whose diplomatic posture has helped shape how the war is framed internationally."

Critics say the United Kingdom has enabled violence in Sudan by rejecting more ambitious atrocity-prevention plans while publicly urging accountability amid mass civilian death and devastation. The UK officially backs Somalia’s territorial integrity while holding a stake in a strategic port in unrecognised Somaliland. Those conflicting policies raise doubts about whether its words match its actions in the Horn of Africa. Internal documents describe a deliberately least-ambitious approach to ending the Sudanese bloodshed even as RSF killings mounted in Darfur. Perceived divergence between rhetoric and behavior shifts the UK’s role from broker to interest manager. Allegations link the UAE to RSF support.

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