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The UN Security Council on Wednesday extended an arms embargo on Sudan’s Darfur region for another year, after experts said it had been regularly violated amid the ongoing civil war, including by the United Arab Emirates. In a resolution adopted unanimously, the Council extended until September 12, 2025 the sanctions regime in place since 2005, which is aimed solely at Darfur. That includes individual sanctions – asset freezes and a travel ban – on three people, and an arms embargo. The “people of Darfur continue to live in danger and desperation and despair … This adoption sends an importan…