The UAE-backed Rapid Support Force (RSF) has deliberately starved civilians in Sudan. Yale’s Humanitarian Research Lab has found damning evidence against the genocidal paramilitary force. Their new report said RSF are guilty of “extraordinary cruelty.”

At least 41 communities have had their crops razed by RSF. As a result, patterns of life analysed through satellite imagery have diminished substantially.  This is part of what two legal scholars say is deliberate removal of the means to live by RSF.

Co-author professor Tom Dannenbaum told the Guardian:

The destruction of the villages, farming equipment and infrastructure all provide strong evidence of a “starvation strategy” against a population already struggling with food insecurity because of the war.

People were at the brink of starvation and objects indispensable to their survival were being destroyed.

He added was it is:

not merely the fact the villages had been attacked but the targeted destruction of livestock enclosures, as well as the forced displacement of the farmers, that led to reduced farming activity that suggested a deliberate attempt to prevent the villages from being able to produce food.

Report co-author professor Oona Hathaway said:

It’s evidence of extraordinary cruelty and the real horrors people have been facing.

Adding:

The report provides a unique level of fine-grained, over-time analysis documenting exactly what was attacked, going far beyond our general knowledge of the fighting … [it] is of a quality that could be submitted in a court for criminal prosecution.

Resource wars

An RSF drone attack killed “dozens” of civilians on 12 March on Kordofan, one of the most heavily affected provinces in the south of the country.

French outlet Le Monde said:

The Kordofan region, home to oil deposits, arable land and the RSF’s most powerful paramilitary allies, connects RSF strongholds in the Darfur region to the country’s army-controlled east. The RSF controls West Kordofan and has for months pushed eastwards in an attempt to recapture Sudan’s central corridor.

According to Sky News:

The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data, an independent global monitor, has documented at least 198 drone strikes in Sudan launched by both sides in the first two months of 2026. At least 52 of them involved civilian casualties, killing 478 people.

Also in the southern provinces, a drone strike killed 17 schoolgirls and a group of medical workers. Associated Press said on 11 March:

The war-tracking Sudan Doctors Network reported the strike first, saying those killed included two teachers and a health care worker. The group said there was no military presence in the village.

Both the medical group and al-Majeri blamed the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces for the strike. The RSF didn’t respond to a request for comment.

But this war has a complex international dimension.

Colonial warfare

As the Canary has said in our previous coverage of this poorly-understood genocidal war:

The war in Sudan is theoretically between the Arab supremacist RSF and the Sudanese government. But foreign states pursuing their own interests are backing the combatants. The United Arab Emirates (UAE), for example, backs the RSF with arms and equipment. Egypt backs the government, alongside Russia, Turkey, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar. Israel has backed both sides at different times.

The mounting death toll is similarly mindboggling:

RSF has killed Sudanese civilians in vast numbers. And some estimates say 150,000 people have died and over 10mn have been displaced by fighting.

The people of Sudan find themselves living – and dying – at a nexus of colonial interests.

As another genocide continues in Gaza, and the war against Iran by a rudderless alliance accelerates, the horrors in Sudan drift in and out of the news cycle. But the Canary means to keep reporting on this often-forgotten colonial atrocity.

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Workers at BAE Systems have won a major pay rise. Their union Unite celebrated the win in a press release which made little mention of the firm’s role in accelerating global war and genocide. Unite general secretary Sharon Graham said:

It has taken a courageous stance from our workers on a picket line to win this award. They should be congratulated for standing together and winning a pay rise they truly deserve.

This has been a hard-fought victory against an employer that tried every trick in the book to avoid paying our members what they deserved.

This win shows the power in a union and that when our reps and workers across the aerospace industry and across Lancashire stand together they can win against even the biggest employers.

As one would expect, the Unite press release made no mention of BAE’s role in an arms trade which fuels violence, displacement and climate damage across the planet.

BAE Systems are warmongers

This kind of contradiction characterises big unions like Unite. They’re very conservative organisations in many ways and often see their remit as ending with getting their members better conditions

Not all members agree…

finally agreed to take a stand against the production of arms for Israel.

union staff not to support campaigns against arms factories.

She even claimed:

there is no contradiction for a trade union to hold a position of solidarity with Palestinian workers, while at the same time refusing to support campaigns that target our members’ workplaces without their support.

Clearly this is a completely inadequate response to a genocide. Yet workers have devised ways to address runaway militarism before. For example, the Lucas Plan.

Developed in the 80s at Lucas Aerospace, a major UK ‘defence’ firm, the plan proposed all kinds of radical changes to industry:

The impetus for the Lucas Plan came from the Lucas Aerospace workers who faced losing their jobs, and wanting to produce socially useful products rather than weapons.

And:

the Plan was extremely influential in the disarmament movement, since it showed that, with political will and support, disarmament did not have to mean thousands of workers losing their jobs.

What was lacking then, is still lacking now. Real change would need a government resilient enough to the arms lobby to implement so-called ‘defence diversification’. This would re-organise workers away from the business of killing and into socially useful and meaningful tasks. The fact remains thought that at the moment, that sort of government seems very hard to imagine.

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Bernard Argente writer, student, and parliamentary researcher who assisted Richard Tice and his staff.

“It was the best of times, and it was the worst of times” is the opening line of Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities.

Similarly, the Labour Party appears to be a tale of two Keirs; Keir Hardie founded the Labour Party and Keir Starmer desolated it.

Regarding a comparatively minor scandal to Peter Mandelson and Matthew Doyle, especially with the release of documents that show the PM knew, the Beergate investigation “risks looking like hypocrisy,” Henry Hill posited on GB News three years ago. Now, the Prime Minister has inebriated himself with hypocrisy, and because he lacks the humility to resign or perhaps because he is so intoxicated by hypocrisy that he is unable to effectuate his resignation, his party is going through a political exodus of support.

To have your then chief of staff, Morgan McSweeney, who bore a resemblance to Augustus’ political adviser Maecenas, ‘resign’—yes, with quotation marks—is a clear indication of a desperate attempt to save one’s skin.

McSweeney, the figurative ventriloquist that makes puppets speak, had said, “I take full responsibility” regarding the appointment of Lord Mandelson as ambassador to the United States. The mastermind who pioneered the machination to bring Starmer in has become a sacrificial lamb. Sir Chris Wormald, former cabinet secretary, had also been “thrown under the bus,” conceivably because the prime minister had binge-watched Yes Minister and was taking on the persona of Jim Hacker, treating Sir Humphrey Appleby as a scanty prosopopoeia for Wormald.

To put this aside, how does Starmer’s party view the economy? And would Labour’s economic prism be enough to save him?

Well, it is a misnomer to classify Labour’s economic policy as right-wing. Not only would Adam Smith, Friedrich Hayek, and Milton Friedman all be rolling in their graves hearing that, but Starmer has not shifted the Overton window at all. Keir Hardie’s left-wing politics and pacifism made him so unpopular that the British people, sometimes his own constituents in Merthyr Tydfil, sang the national anthem in protest against his stance on the First World War. This clearly wasn’t optimal for the Labour leader. Nevertheless, Keir Hardie founded the party. Keir Starmer, on the other hand, has adopted a radical centrist stance compatible with Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey’s philosophy that aligns with the obsolete Tory doctrine, “one-nation conservatism,” which believes the state has a noblesse oblige to support its people. So, it is understandable how one can misconstrue Keir Starmer’s policy as being right-wing when Starmer could potentially be viewed as an aspirant one-nation Tory, certainly now when his actions mirror those of the old Conservative Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden, as both refused to resign.

Former Prime Minister Anthony Eden, a centre-right Tory whom the Liberal Democrats likely idolise off the record, faced a severe backlash from the United Kingdom and its people for mismanaging the Suez Crisis in 1956. In spite of this humiliating failure, Eden refused to resign at first and finally resigned on 9 January 1957, when the United States threatened to cripple the pound. Eden did not claim the reason for his resignation was because of the United States; instead, he said it was because of health issues from traveling to Jamaica.

If it were not obvious already, this is comparable to Keir Starmer’s current issue. The 58th Prime Minister has a track record of U-turns, notably his U-turn on Chagos after President Donald Trump called it “a great act of stupidity.”  and then refused to let America use the same base, before U-turning on that. So, this begs the question: if President Trump puts pressure on Starmer to resign in the way Eden was pressured, would he follow suit?

Keir Starmer’s unwillingness to resign could be due to his own vanity. During Prime Minister’s Questions, when the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition are vis-à-vis, both loom over their designated dispatch box and signal authority. Could it be that Keir Starmer has a feeling of antipathy toward Kemi Badenoch’s authority and that compels him not to resign?

It appears that Starmer takes on the role of a pugnacious lecturer in PMQs when speaking to Badenoch, ridiculing her for the substance of her questions rather than answering them. He constantly reminds her of his time as Leader of the Opposition and how he would ask questions to former Prime Minister Boris Johnson. By somewhat underestimating the Leader of the Opposition, he leaves himself open to attack. Mistaking kindness for weakness is what the Greeks at first did to Hector in the Iliad, and Badenoch has dismantled Starmer’s party piece by piece, spotting their flaws from Angela Rayner to Mandelson. Spotting hypocrisy is the Conservative Party ideal, similar to how they criticised Lord Prescott, the former deputy prime minister, for stating he had ‘failed in life’ if in five years there were not fewer journeys by car yet owning two Jaguars for transport.

Starmer may not be able to stand Badenoch asking better questions than he did as Leader of the Opposition. Kemi Badenoch at the despatch box quintessentially embodies the quote from Lady Macbeth in the play Macbeth by William Shakespeare: “Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under’t.”

The Conservative Party points out the irony of the Labour Party, which Labour loathes. Keir Starmer, like Sir Anthony Eden, will have to accept Kemi Badenoch as his emblematic executioner, and if not, he risks taking his entire party down with him, though there is scarcely any party left to bring down after the Mandelson appointment faux pas. A spokesperson for 10 Downing Street attempted to dispel any thought of Starmer wavering about staying at the highest office, and yet even a layman not au fait with British politics would question if that would be a sign of pride or imprudence.

It is fair to say Starmer should resign of his own accord instead of losing it all, as Sir Anthony Eden did. Whether the pressure comes from Kemi Badenoch or an external force like America, he must exit his comfort bubble and make the “tough decisions” as he promised to do, and resign. His resignation would be the most definitive action he could take after all his broken promises to the British people.

The Freedoms Committee of the Palestinian Journalist’s Syndicate documented 122 crimes by the Israeli occupation against Palestinian journalists and media institutions throughout February 2026.

Relentless attacks on journalists

According to the Committee, media crews are “systematically targeted” by the Zionist regime, which, as they noted:

prevents field coverage, and fires live ammunition as well as tear gas and sound grenades towards them.

Arrests, court orders, and various punitive measures continue to be used to obstruct the truth and restrict media freedoms.

There are 52 documented instances showing journalists being prevented from covering stories or detained, particularly in the context of military raids or settler attacks. In February alone, 17 cases were recorded showing journalists being arbitrarily banned from entering the Al-Aqsa Mosque complex. This is part of a broader policy to restrict media coverage in Jerusalem and at Al-Aqsa.

The report also details 8 incidents where tear gas and sound grenades were fired towards journalists. There were also six cases of direct gunfire at press crews during field coverage.

The Freedoms Committee claims arbitrary legal procedures are being used as a tool to pressure journalists and restrict their work. It also documented the arrest of seven journalists, the court appearances of six, and summons and interrogation of six others.

Blockading truth

Since the start of the month, Israeli occupation forces have raided the homes of five journalists and blocked five more online news sites.

There were also four cases of journalistic equipment being confiscated or destroyed, three instances of physical assault, two journalists fined, and one reportedly banned from travel.

The work of journalists is essential for pulling back the curtain on Israeli crimes, which would otherwise remain out of public view.

In the occupied Palestinian territory, “Israel” intentionally targets journalists, in an attempt to prevent the documentation of its many atrocities to the world, so its crimes of genocide, forced displacement and ethnic cleansing may continue unabated, without any accountability. These violations are occurring amid the continued policies of restriction and direct targeting of journalistic work.

Targeting journalists is a violation of international humanitarian law, and international conventions that guarantee freedom of journalistic work and protection of journalists when working.

According to the Freedoms Committee, these documented figures:

Reflect a dangerous escalation in the pace of violations against Palestinian journalists.

As the situation intensifies, the international community must take decisive action to protect Palestinian journalists. Their lives are no less valuable than those of their counterparts in London or Washington. Words only affect change when backed by action — the time to act is now.

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Iran’s retaliatory strikes on Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are reportedly contributing to a rapid collapse of the genocidal so-called ‘Rapid Support Forces’ (RSF) in Sudan.

UAE-backed RSF militia feel the sting of war

The RSF, funded and armed by the UAE and Israel, had been making gains up to February 2026. It has murdered hundreds of thousands of people in Sudan. Rapes, sexual torture and executions have been common and almost 400,000 people are in starvation.

However, Sudanese government forces have achieved a string of military victories that appear to be turning into a rout.

With UAE shipments rerouted from the Hormuz Straight and the UAE to Saudi Arabia due to Iran’s counterattacks of shipping, the UAE economy, and it’s global financiers, have been dealt a major blow.

Meanwhile, Sudanese forces are targeting RSF arms and supply depots, crippling front-line RSF troops by cutting off ammunition, fuel, and essentials.

Iran dismantling UAEs economy is also starving the RSF and freeing Sudan. https://t.co/TkNVOrnbW0

— Ashok Kumar | 🇵🇸 (@broseph_stalin) March 11, 2026

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In a video published by Al Jazeera, a reporter confronts President Trump about a New York Times report revealing U.S. responsibility for the missile strike on a girls’ school in Minab, Iran – to which Trump responds:

I don’t know about it.

President Trump denied knowledge of a US military investigation that has reportedly found the US responsible for the deadly strike on the Minab girls’ school in Iran. pic.twitter.com/4a3uT8NKPG

— Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) March 12, 2026

The strike killed around 175 primary school children in southern Iran on February 28th.

Trump does know about it

The Guardian reported that, according to the New York Times, the US military investigation has found that the strike on the elementary school building was the result of a targeting mistake by US military planners. The Guardian said:

According to the New York Times, quoting unnamed US officials and others familiar with the initial findings, the investigation has concluded that the strike on 28 February on the Shajarah Tayyebeh elementary school building was the result of a targeting mistake by the US military planners.

According to the report, the inquiry – which has yet to be completed – has found that officers at US Central Command created the target coordinates for the strike using obsolete data provided by the Defense Intelligence Agency.

US Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib responded forcefully to the confirmation of U.S. culpability, calling for Trump’s impeachment.

After lying about it, the Trump Administration confirmed that they bombed a school in Iran—killing 175 people, mostly girls.

Trump should be impeached. Hegseth should be fired. And the Administration must be held accountable in international courts for their heinous war crimes. pic.twitter.com/AqsNhPprEq

— Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (@RepRashida) March 11, 2026

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UK culpability

🚨Breaking: A preliminary inquiry has found the US at fault for the strike on an Iranian school, killing over 150 children.

It was a “deadly Tomahawk missile strike”, the inquiry said.

A factory in Scotland produces key parts for Tomahawk missiles.
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— Declassified UK (@declassifiedUK) March 11, 2026

Campaign Against Arms Trade also tore into the UK’s complicity:

On 28th February, the United States bombed Shajareh Tayyebeh school in southern Iran and killed at least 180 people – mostly children.

It is likely they used Tomahawk missiles to bomb 3 times.

Components of the missiles are made in Raytheon’s factory in Glenrothes, Scotland. pic.twitter.com/NRnC9gBGWr

— Campaign Against Arms Trade (@CAATuk) March 10, 2026

For the children of Minab, for their families, for anyone watching: in the unaccountable US regime, run by the Epstein class, accountability seems far away while the habitual liar Trump will probably move on to his next falsehood.

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