🇸🇩 🇸🇪 Swedish pop star Zara Larsson indicates she may not perform in Abu Dhabi on December 3 after a fan urged her to cancel over the UAE's backing of the mass killing and mass raping Rapid Support Forces militia in Sudan.
Larsson was booked for the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix concerts. "Please read about what UAE is doing to Sudan then cancel your Abu Dhabi show," a fan wrote on Instagram. Larsson replied, "I will not be going to Abu Dhabi." Both comments were later deleted, and no formal cancellation has yet been announced.
Reuters reported on September 11 that the race itself may be moved over regional security concerns.
UN experts, mainstream media organizations like WSJ, NYT, and FT, Amnesty International, and Human Rights Watch have documented Emirati support or weapons transfers to the RSF; Sudan filed a genocide complicity case against it last year. The US, however, has refused to name the UAE when discussing the war, or hold it accountable for over three years of genocide in Sudan.
Zara Larsson says she has cancelled her Abu Dhabi show in solidarity with Sudan.