Question to the Home Office:
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether UK funds contributed to the Khartoum Process (EU/Horn of Africa Migration Route Initiative) in Sudan directly supported the Rapid Support Forces, including former members of the Janjaweed militia, in their task of border management.
The Khartoum Process facilitates a valuable Europe-Africa dialogue on managing migration, combatting organised immigration crime and addressing the effects of trafficking in the Horn and North Africa.
While the UK was a member state of the EU, it made contributions to the EU Emergency Trust Fund for Africa (EUTF for Africa) and the EU’s Better Managed Migration (BMM) programming which provided funds to the Khartoum Process.
The UK's financial contributions to the Khartoum Process did not fund the Sudanese Rapid Support Forces.