The United Arab Emirates' candidate for the position of UN Secretary General, Lana Nusayeva, came fourth in the Security Council's eighth colorless straw poll, a sign of growing opposition to Abu Dhabi's foreign policy. "Few want an apology for the UAE's role in sending weapons and mercenaries to the [UN-led] Sudan Rapid Support Force," noted former Human Rights Watch director Kenneth Roth. The vote coincided with a New York Times report that UN investigators had found evidence that the United Arab Emirates funded Colombian mercenaries to support the RSF, a militia that the UN says has carried out genocide in Sudan. The article described Nusayeva as leading the Emirati's efforts to deny her country's role in Sudan.

The United Arab Emirates' candidate for the position of UN Secretary General, Lana Nusayeva, came fourth in the Security Council's eighth colorless straw poll, a sign of growing opposition to Abu Dhabi's foreign policy. "Few want an apology for the UAE's role in sending weapons and mercenaries to the [UN-led] Sudan Rapid Support Force," noted former Human Rights Watch director Kenneth Roth. The vote coincided with a New York Times report that UN investigators had found evidence that the United Arab Emirates funded Colombian mercenaries to support the RSF, a militia that the UN says has carried out genocide in Sudan. The article described Nusayeva as leading the Emirati's efforts to deny her country's role in Sudan.