According to the organization, the findings imply probable violations of the UN's arms embargo, which prohibits arms transfers to Sudan.
"Our mapping shows that weapon systems designed and manufactured in France are being actively used on the battlefield in Sudan," says Amnesty's Secretary-General Agnès Callamard.
According to Amnesty, it involves United Arab Emirates-manufactured troop transport vehicles equipped with French defense systems. The armored vehicles are said to have been used by RSF in battles against government forces in several areas of Sudan, including Darfur, where RSF has been accused of serious human rights violations.
The civil war in Sudan broke out in April 2023. Since then, over 20,000 people have been killed and over eleven million people have been forced to flee, according to the UN. The war has caused a famine catastrophe with the potential to become larger and deadlier than the last major famine 13 years ago, stated the UN-affiliated Famine Review Committee (FRC) in August.
The United Arab Emirates has denied supplying RSF with weapons.
The fighting in Sudan broke out in April last year and is between arch-rivals General Abd al-Fattah al-Burhan and his former deputy, Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, who is the leader of the militia Rapid Support Forces, RSF.
RSF was formed in 2013 from the janjaweed militias, the armed groups that Sudan's former dictator Omar al-Bashir had sent out to spread terror and quell the uprising in conflict-ridden Darfur in western Sudan in the early 2000s.
Both parties have repeatedly been accused of war crimes.
Sources: AFP and AP
