Weeks before Sudan descended into civil war, Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed al-Nahyan, owner of Manchester City, welcomed a notorious Sudanese warlord to his palace. The sheikh's charities set up a hospital as a cover to smuggle weapons to the warlord's group, the Rapid Support Forces.

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