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Sudan has requested an emergency UN Security Council meeting on what it calls UAE “aggression” for allegedly supporting paramilitaries battling the army, a diplomatic source said Saturday. The fighting broke out in April last year between the regular army, headed by Sudan’s de facto leader Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, and the paramilitaryRapid Support Forces (RSF) led by his former deputy Mohamed Hamdan Daglo. For months the regular army has accused the United Arab Emirates of supporting the RSF, a charge the UAE denies. “Yesterday, our permanent representative to the United Nations submitted a req…

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