Co-owner of The Baltimore Sun fails to mention UAE support for genocide in Sudan

Friends,

 Armstrong Williams is the co-owner of The Baltimore Sun and a close friend of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Williams pens at least two columns a week.  I never look forward to reading them as, for example, one promoted Trump as a Nobel Peace Prize hopeful.  Another was entitled “Hamas gains from Gaza’s suffering.” Of course, it blames the suffering on the Palestinian group and ignores Israeli war crimes. 

  And The Sun gave heavy promotion to his trip to Israel.  Once back his two missives did not include the Palestinian perspective. I wrote a letter to complain, but recognized it would not be published.  How dare a letter-writer challenge the co-owner of the newspaper.

  For some time he has been beating the drum about the lack of coverage of “genocide” in Africa.  I agree there is a lack of coverage of Africa, but as co-owner why his your newspaper not provide this coverage? 

 Most recently, as noted in my letter below, his hypocrisy was highlighted by his support for a strong economic relationship  between the U.S. and the United Arab Emirates.  His op-ed included a photograph of Mr. Williams and the U.A.E ambassador.  As an “astute” observer of the situation in Africa, why did he fail to mention the UAE’s support for genocide in Sudan?  Again my unpublished letter had no chance of being published.  Kagiso, Max

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 To the editor:

  I was stunned first to see a photograph of Armstrong Williams at the United Arab Emirates embassy and then to read his op-ed “UAE National Day in Washington highlights economic future in the US” [The Baltimore Sun, December 4, 2025].  The op-ed extols the potential economic relationship between the UAE and the USA.  This quotation from Rep. Tom Wilson was most noxious: “We have a chance, because of Donald Trump, for peace for the first time in 3,000 years in the Middle East.”  It has to go down with one of the most preposterous statements I have ever read.  This is a president that supports the execution of alleged drug couriers and denies them  the right to contest the charges in court.

 I remember another op-ed by Mr. Williams “Racism endures; ignoring genocide in Africa” on June 5, 2024. This is what he wrote: “Ongoing genocides in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), South Sudan, Sudan,  the Central African Republic, and Biafra are largely ignored.”  I appreciated that he highlighted the ongoing violence in the aforementioned countries, but surely, the co-owner of The Sun is aware of the UAE funding of the notorious Rapid Support Forces in Sudan?  Journalists and humanitarian groups have long been documenting the support of weapons, supplies, and political cover provided by the UAE to the RSF.  The RSF is carrying out mass atrocities and is working closely with Russia Wagner group.  The situation in parts of Sudan, including in El Fasher, have resulted in one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises in the world.

 I urge everyone to contact their members of Congress to tell them to condemn the UAE for fomenting genocide in Sudan.  And please tell them the USA should not engage in any economic activity with a country well-known for human rights violations as detailed by Amnesty International.

 Max Obuszewski

 Baltimore

410-323-1607

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