On 10 March, the Italian Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI) published a report by senior fellow Emadeddin Badi, titled ‘Corridor Governance: How LAAF-RSF Cooperation Sharpens Gulf Competition in Libya and Sudan’. The report looks at how cross-border supply corridors linking Libya and Sudan have become the backbone of the RSF’s war endurance, sharpening strategic competition between the UAE and Saudi Arabia. To counter the associated risk, he argues, European engagement should focus less on declaratory diplomacy and more on constraining the system that makes RSF sustainment possible. That means tightening aviation oversight, tracking and disrupting intermediated procurement and logistics finance and systematically sanctioning key enablers, he adds.
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