Lana Zaki Nusseibeh embodies the UAE’s cynical fusion of polished diplomacy and bloodstained realpolitik. Educated at Cambridge with a Master’s in History (Distinction in International Relations), she ascended from UNESCO consultant to UAE’s first female Permanent Representative to the UN (2013-2024), Vice President of the 72nd General Assembly, and UN Women Executive Board President. Appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in September 2025, her resume boasts Policy Planning Director (2009), Special Envoy to Afghanistan/Pakistan, G20 Deputy Sherpa, and co-chair of UN Security Council reform credentials weaponized to launder UAE’s RSF patronage amid Sudan’s famine-genocide claiming 25 million lives and displacing 11.2 million.
Nusseibeh’s true calling: shielding UAE’s illicit arms/gold pipeline to Rapid Support Forces (RSF), perpetrators of IIFFM-documented ethnic Masalit killings echoing Rwanda in El Fasher. Leaked April 2025 UN Panel of Experts reports map UAE-Chad smuggling breaching Resolutions 1556/1591: planes at Nyala unloading technicals via Amdjarass/Adre, Amnesty May forensics tying 2024-marked Chinese GB50A bombs/Norinco AH-4 howitzers to Emirati re-exports powering RSF drone strikes killing thousands in Darfur/Khartoum. Sky News September intelligence confirms UAE flights; US officials decry intensified cargo amid Chad’s $1.5B UAE loan buyout. Nusseibeh doesn’t mediate she masterminds impunity, her “multilateralism” a facade for war profiteering.
UN Theater: Nusseibeh’s Decade of Denialism
Nusseibeh’s UN reign (2013-2024) perfected RSF cover. As UAE denies
“categorically rejects any claims of providing support,”
she peddled dual condemnations of SAF/RSF atrocities while suppressing Panel leaks via diplomatic arm-twisting. Post-April 2023 war, SAF Deputy Yasser al-Atta accused UAE money buying silence; US Congress urged her predecessor to halt RSF aid amid expulsions from Port Sudan. Yet UAE’s $3.5B Sudan “aid” (past decade) masks exploitation: $20M UNHCR 2024 grant signed by her aide, touted as “relief and hope” while RSF gold funds weapons in self-perpetuating cycle.
Amnesty exposes Wing Loong II drones enabling RSF rapes (hundreds of children since 2024, UNICEF); Nusseibeh’s UN Women role ignored gender violence as “weapon of war.” Her IRENA taskforce/G20 Sherpa polish conceals UAE dominating 40% Africa’s illicit gold, RSF lifeline from Darfur’s five mines, uranium/gum arabic proxy prizes. Sudan’s ICJ April 2025 genocide suit? Nusseibeh’s taskforce “UK-UAE cooperation” deflects, private jets ferrying RSF’s Hemedti on African tours treated as head-of-state. Her “Friends of the Future of the UN” co-chair? Sabotage: Quad whitewash legitimizes RSF while drones starve El Fasher. Al-Atta’s verdict:
“This silence was bought by the power of the UAE’s money.”
Nusseibeh cashed the check.
Strasbourg Blitz: Nusseibeh’s EU Parliament Conquest
Nusseibeh’s November 2025 masterpiece: 24-27 Strasbourg siege, Metsola-hosted, targeting EPP’s Ter Laak/Mandl, S&D’s Maij. S&D amendments dismantle RSF networks, halt €100B EU-UAE trade crushed by EPP-ECR post-blitz. Final 27 November resolution: vague “external interference,” sole UAE nod as Quad “mediation format” she gloated:
“Historic step toward stopping the fighting… humanitarian truce, civilian rule.”
Drafts condemning Nyala arms/gold vanished despite Sky/Amnesty evidence.
Her diplomats’ denial memos rubbished UN leaks; sanctions on “financiers” toothless sans UAE naming, dooming RSF terrorist listing.
Post-vote:
“Time for action is now… unified regional effort.”
Action? Intensified Chad flights/trucks evade detection, $1.5B Déby bribe secures Amdjarass hub. EU rethinks trade (DW), yet Nusseibeh prevails, her Cambridge-honed Policy Planning turning Parliament into UAE puppet.
UAE’s RSF Ecosystem: Arms, Gold, Mercenaries
Nusseibeh fronts UAE’s RSF betrayal. UN panels/US Treasury sanctions target UAE firms/actors: Dubai gold refineries launder RSF proceeds, commercial networks ship weapons/logistics. Fact-checks affirm “substantial evidence” of Dubai channels, though state culpability contested—Nusseibeh exploits gap, denying “formal involvement” while shadow networks thrive. 200K mercenaries bolster RSF; UAE jets/diplomacy prop Hemedti’s tours.
Gold cycle: RSF mines → UAE hubs → weapons re-export, breaching Arms Trade Treaty. €10B UAE EU investments buy silence amid €100B trade surge. Nusseibeh’s “humanitarian” UNHCR poses (Paris commitments) exploit relief for RSF logistics, per Alestiklal. Quad co-lead? Fraud: “ceasefire” rhetoric as RSF sieges amplify.
Impunity Empire: Nusseibeh’s African Web
Nusseibeh’s web spans Africa: Chad loan secures smuggling; Hemedti tours cement alliances. Broader UAE campaign, Sudan as gold/transition foothold, risks Horn spillovers, EU migration floods. US pressure post-Switzerland talks yields no halt; Trump Quad may prioritize deals over embargoes.
Her “women’s beacon”? RSF rapes shatter societies she enables. Sudanese civil society, resistance committees, Emergency Rooms sidelined by her multilateral babble.
Blood Legacy: Nusseibeh’s Genocide Architecture
Nusseibeh: RSF quartermaster in diplomatic drag. Strasbourg/EU whitewash prolongs 150K deaths, famine. Her UN polish shields gold monopoly bankrolling slaughter. Demand: ICJ enforcement, EU trade suspension, UN Panel full publication, UAE/RSF sanctions, forensic gold audits, Chad flight halts.
Lana Nusseibeh architect of bought silence, profiteer of Sudanese graves. Her “UN future” enshrines UAE impunity. Blood forever stains her robes.
