UK hosting 'discreet' Sudan event featuring RSF and UAE representatives

UK hosting 'discreet' Sudan event featuring RSF and UAE representatives Submitted by Oscar Rickett on Wed, 07/22/2026 - 12:37 Sudan's army-backed government tells MEE it has 'very little confidence or trust' in what the UK is doing Wiston House, which hosts the UK's Wilton Park events, pictured in March 2016 (Wikimedia/Creative Commons) Off A discreet British foreign office event beginning on Wednesday is mired in controversy after it emerged that a representative of the Rapid Support Forces ' (RSF) political wing will be attending, Middle East Eye can reveal. Nasredeen Abdulbari, a leader in the Sudanese paramilitary's Tasis coalition, is attending a UK -run conference at Wilton Park alongside a delegation from the United Arab Emirates , according to multiple British and Sudanese sources. Sudan 's army-backed government was not invited to the conference, which runs from Wednesday to Friday and was described by multiple British government sources as a "discreet" event.