The Rapid Support Forces, a Sudanese paramilitary responsible for mass atrocities, has been a beneficiary of EU policies designed to keep African migrants out of Europe and secure access to Sudan’s vast natural resources. Our Facts of the Week expose how Brussels has played a crucial role in fuelling Sudan’s instability, empowering the genocidal RSF and exposing the EU’s rhetoric on human rights as nothing more than a convenient smokescreen for imperialist interests.