Since civil war erupted in Sudan last year, dozens of cargo planes from the United Arab Emirates have landed at a small airstrip in Chad that some UN experts and diplomats suspect is being used to funnel arms across the border into the conflict, flight data and satellite images show.
At least 86 flights from the UAE have headed for an airstrip at Amdjarass in eastern Chad since the war began in April 2023, three-quarters of them operated by carriers accused by the UN of ferrying Emirati weapons to a warlord in Libya, according to the flight data and corporate documents reviewed by Reuters.
