Revealed: The illegal migrant turned Sheffield taxi driver who’s freely promoting a genocidal guerrilla group in Sudan – all while people are being jailed for their tweets…

Among those who defend mass murderers, Abdalmonim Alrabea appears as a cheerful man. When I visit him at his flat in a 1970s block of flats five minutes’ drive from the center of Sheffield, he smiles as I introduce myself, shakes my hand and invites me in.

I offer to take off my shoes, in keeping with Muslim custom, and she gestures for me to sit on one of two couches in her clean living room, where a vase of flowers sits on the table and a flat-screen television sits on one wall. He even offers me a cup of tea. So far so civilized.

But 44-year-old Alrabea is not what she seems. This former taxi driver is accused of playing a key role behind the spree of violence tearing his native Sudan apart.

The father-of-two from the state of Darfur, who illegally crossed the Channel into the UK in 2008, has been using his online platform to rally support for Sudan’s bloodthirsty guerrilla group Rapid Support Forces (RSF).

RSF has been waging a genocidal war against non-Arab, African ethnic communities in Sudan since 2023. It was the horrific displays of brutality displayed by the RSF when they finally occupied the city of El Fashir, the capital of North Darfur, that alerted the world to what was happening last month.

No atrocity has generated more disgust than when Abu Lulu, one of the RSF’s most notorious fighters, and a group of his subordinates indiscriminately shot healthcare workers and patients in cold blood at Al Fashir’s Saudi Maternity Hospital.

A total of 460 people were reported to have been killed in the hospital, while the Sudanese Doctors Network claimed that RSF ‘killed everyone they found in the hospital, including patients, their attendants, and anyone else who was there’.

It was this monster that Alrabea allegedly hosted on his TikTok account, which had almost 250,000 followers before being banned last month for ‘violating policies on violent and criminal conduct’, whose actions were deemed so heinous that he was detained by his own high command.

Alrabea posted photos of himself standing on a tank in Sudan, which he visited shortly after the current civil war first broke out.

Abu Lulu (pictured) and a group of his subordinates indiscriminately shoot healthcare workers and patients in cold blood at the Saudi Maternity Hospital in Al Fashir

“I killed 2,000 people today and then I lost count,” the man believed to be Abu Lulu said on the platform. ‘I want to start from scratch again.’

Filming himself from the comfort of his car, as he often does, Alrabea laughed and later said he wanted to ‘fuck this ‘falangayat’ from head to toe – the word ‘falangayat’ being a racist and derogatory term RSF uses to refer to indigenous groups in Darfur.

In another video from 2023, Alrabea claimed: [RSF] rape, it’s okay’.

In November of that year, the former Amazon delivery driver, who said he was studying business and management remotely at Canterbury Christ Church University, visited Sudan shortly after the current civil war first broke out.

He published photos of himself standing on a tank and interviewed RSF deputy commander Abdelrahim Hamdan Dagalo, who was sanctioned by the US two months ago for human rights violations including ‘massacre of civilians, ethnic cleansing and the use of sexual violence’.

Today Alrabea is accused of being one of the RSF’s most high-profile propagandists and recruiters. But although his social media pages have been repeatedly taken down for violating community guidelines and he is being investigated by police in the UK, he is free to spread his ideology online.

In a meeting with the Daily Mail last week, Alrabea did not regret his views despite mounting evidence that the RSF had committed war crimes.

When asked about reports of the RSF massacre at the maternity hospital in Al Fashir, he said: ‘This is fake news.’

Claiming that the reports may have been generated by artificial intelligence, he said the TikTok video he shot with Abu Lulu was ‘just a joke’ and praised RSF for fighting against the Sudanese government. He later claimed that Abu Lulu was not in the video and that someone else had assumed his identity.

“I killed 2,000 people today and then I lost count,” the man believed to be Abu Lulu said on TikTok

‘I do not support the killing of any civilians or people in Sudan,’ he said. ‘But I support RSF because they are fighting against the Sudanese army.’

He said he was jailed in Sudan for opposing the government and came to the UK ‘on a ship’ across the Channel before being granted asylum, settling in Wakefield before moving to Sheffield. He has been a British citizen since 2017.

Claiming that RSF was trying to “bring democracy” to Sudan, he said that the Muslim Brotherhood, a Sunni Islamist organization, was corrupting his country’s armed forces.

‘We face hatred and obstruction from people who want to shut up and not speak up for democracy in Sudan,’ he said, before insisting once again that the hospital massacre was ‘made up’.

‘These massacres were never committed by people as claimed,’ he said. ‘If I see evidence [of war crimes] ‘I will speak out against any crime committed in Sudan.’ Alrabea posts videos almost daily to a YouTube channel with over 4,000 subscribers; In most of them, the former taxi driver talks in his car about the conflict in Sudan.

Online platform Sudan In The News, which tracks Alrabea’s output, accused her of ‘justifying RSF’s use of rape as a weapon of war by using the taxi it uses to transport women’. It was learned that he quit working as a taxi driver last year.

More than 2,000 people are thought to have been massacred in Al Fashir when the RSF took control of the city last month.

It had been under siege for over a year, walled off from the rest of the country by paramilitary forces, and its inhabitants left to starve; They reportedly survived on animal feed and weeds.

The massacre was so great that it was claimed that the bloody ground could even be seen from space. Alrabea visited the city as recently as June, when some parts were already under RSF control.

While Sudan has been in civil war since 2023, the roots of the conflict date back to 2019, when President Omar Al Bashir, who came to power through a coup in 1989, was overthrown.

A joint military-civilian government was formed in 2021, with the head of the country’s armed forces and the RSF leader initially working together. However, they fell out and hostilities between the two forces began in April 2023.

Unusually, RSF’s appalling actions are frequently broadcast on social media; Fighters like Abu Lulu apparently see themselves as freedom fighter celebrities.

In one video, RSF fighters could be seen laughing as they passed a row of bodies in the back of a pickup truck.

‘Look at these studies,’ someone says. ‘Look at this genocide. ‘They will all die this way.’

Others depict the slaughter of captives with reckless barbarism. In one such video, starring Abu Lulu locked in fear, a dozen petrified men sit on parched desert sand and beg for their lives.

What follows is a brutal massacre in which bullets hit defenseless prisoners, their bodies convulsing as each bullet hits their homes. As the summary executions are completed, Abu Lulu turns to the camera and smiles.

However, while Alrabea supports RSF, which he sees as an effort to bring democracy to Sudan, he maintains that he is not an active ‘convener’ for the paramilitary group. ‘My videos tell people what is happening in Sudan,’ he said. ‘A lot of people don’t know what’s going on. ‘The platforms are generally controlled by the military.’

Alrabea’s unrepentant support from the country that granted him asylum is contradicted by publicly available evidence. Last year, Human Rights Watch published an 89-page report on sexual violence by RSF in Khartoum. This report revealed that children were forced into marriage and women and girls were held in conditions that amounted to ‘sexual slavery’.

This evidence appears to have done nothing to undermine Alrabea’s support.

The soft-spoken activist claimed, often smiling, that the mounting evidence was ‘not true’. He disputed the idea that rape was used as a weapon and claimed that those who remained in Al Fashir after the RSF attack were not civilians.

On why he records so many videos, he said: ‘I need to show people what’s real, what’s true. The Sudanese army only sends fake news to the media. ‘It doesn’t give people what the facts are.’

He said he could not accept reports of RSF atrocities, comparing them to the war in Gaza. He said: ‘Some say Hamas shot, some say Israel killed. But if you can’t enter the country, how can you know? I won’t say it 100 percent [RSF massacres] It didn’t happen, but we need to do research to find out what happened there.’

Abdallah Abnu Garda, president of the Darfur Diaspora Association, which campaigns for genocide survivors in the UK, told the Daily Mail that Alrabea had ‘deliberately incited genocide survivors who have made the UK their home’ and ‘exploited this country’s protections on free speech to spread hate speech without accountability’.

Last Friday he lodged a formal complaint with South Yorkshire Police about Alrabea’s online posts after revelations about his behavior were first reported in the Guardian.

‘Even though we reported it to the relevant authorities many times, no action was taken to stop it,’ he said. His behavior came to a head when he hosted the killer known as “Abu Lulu” on the TikTok platform, a killer who executed innocent civilians on livestream.

‘Despite the seriousness of their actions, we believe the British authorities were slow to intervene. This issue must be treated with due seriousness.

‘We call on the authorities to immediately launch a formal investigation into his activities, including his use of online platforms to spread harmful and potentially criminal content.

‘Freedom of expression should never be used as a shield for hate speech or incitement to violence.’

Meanwhile, as war in Sudan has displaced at least 13 million people from their homes, Alrabea continues to offer support to rebels who are terrorizing and massacring minority groups in the country he fled from his tidy suburban living room.