Watchdog says Sudan may have violated arms embargo
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NAIROBI -- The Sudanese government of President Omar al-Bashir may have violated U.N. sanctions on arms sales with Iran and also skirted a European Union embargo, a weapons-monitoring group said Wednesday.
The report by Conflict Armament Research says a cache captured from the Khartoum government forces may contain evidence of those violations. The London-based watchdog said the weapons were captured in the contested Blue Nile region by the rebel Sudan People's Liberation Army-North, which has been battling government forces.
According to the report, the weapons include an Iranian howitzer artillery gun and tanks refurbished by the Sanam Industrial Group, an Iranian government-affiliated company that was placed under sanctions in 2007 when the U.N. Security Council banned heavy weapons exports from Iran.
