Sudan Expels Chadian Diplomats in Retaliatory Move

Sudan’s Foreign Affairs Ministry has ordered three Chadian diplomats to leave the country within 72 hours, in retaliation for a similar move by Chad.

Chad’s government had on Saturday declared four Sudanese diplomats attached to Sudan’s embassy in N’Djamena as “persona non grata” and ordered their exit from the country within 72 hours.

It made the decision after two Sudanese officials accused Chad’s government of interfering in the ongoing conflict in Khartoum by supporting the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).

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Chadian spokesman said the recurrence of such statements by Sudanese authorities with regards to Chad and its government is simply not acceptable, hostile, and masks a hidden agenda.

The official believed that the Chadian Foreign Ministry’s move to expel four Sudanese diplomats is nothing but “an attempt to escape forward…it will not work in covering up Chad’s role in the atrocities committed by the Janjaweed militia,” he stressed referring to the war crimes and crimes against humanity by the RSF members.

Chad’s diplomatic escalation follows similar moves by the United Arab Emirates (UAE), which expelled three Sudanese diplomats, prompting Sudan to retaliate by expelling 15 Emirati diplomats.

In a related development, Sudan has appealed to the United Nations Security Council and the international community to label the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) as a terrorist organization and to criminalize any form of support or assistance to the group.

The Sudanese foreign ministry also called for any form of assistance or support to the RSF to be outlawed, equating such aid with complicity in the militia’s heinous acts of terrorism, crimes against humanity, and ongoing ethnic cleansing.