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The UN arms embargo on Darfur is due to expire on Saturday and would need to be renewed by the UN Security Council. German-language commentary notes the stakes: without renewal, weapons could flow more freely to the Rapid Support Forces and other armed groups fueling Sudan's war. Discussion links the embargo's fate to regional actors including the United Arab Emirates, as well as Chad, Libya and Colombia mercenaries, amid warnings that letting it lapse would worsen the conflict.

A German commentator argues that the centre-right CDU/CSU's slow drift toward right-wing positions has led it to a chancellor in whom fewer than 20 percent of Germans still believe. The remark, shared alongside a Die Zeit foreign-politics article, reflects a broader debate about the Union's political direction and the chancellor's deep unpopularity.