False and fabricated news about UAE visa ban on Sudanese
The United Arab Emirates is being subjected to systematic smear campaigns by fabricating lies, fabricating events and news, posting them on news sites and circulating them on social media.
The latest of these fabrications was what was recently spread through regional and international media, including the All Africa website and BBC Page service – which broadcasts from Nigeria – Africa News and Kenyan Wall Street, among others, about the UAE ban on issuing entry visas to twenty African countries, Among them is Sudan.
The Ugandan Nile Post was the first to publish the story, and was then inundated with other sites, which did not verify the authenticity of the information. “It overlooked the publication of the statement by the Ugandan ambassador to the UAE, who denied the news of the visa ban as untrue and baseless.” This was the same statement published by the Nile Post website after the first report.
Neither the UAE government sites nor the accounts of UAE embassies in some African countries, which are said to have banned the issuance of visas to their nationals, such as the UAE embassy in Sudan, the UAE embassy in Uganda, and the UAE embassy in Nigeria, have any information indicating the visa ban or any evidence close or far to the allegation in circulation.
Thus, it seems clear that this is nothing but a smear campaign aimed at sowing doubt among the peoples of the African continent and tarnishing the image of the United Arab Emirates there, and spreading sedition and hatred in an attempt to undermine the love and esteem that these peoples hold for the Emirates, as a State that has always sought to stand by the black African States at all times, supported the Sudan, Kenya and others, and supported a peaceful solution between Ethiopia and Eritrea.
African countries were among the first countries targeted by the UAE for humanitarian and relief assistance in the face of floods, drought and crises.
