Chemical Weapons: New intelligence leaks a secret dossier containing over 150 documents, audio recordings, and text messages. The dossier documents the development and deployment of chemical weapons and chlorine-based bombs during the conflict in Sudan. Among other things, it is revealed that the Sudanese army tested a chemical weapons operation during fighting to retake Khartoum. Chlorine is a choking agent that can cause severe respiratory issues, lung damage, and death.
KHARTOUM SEPTEMBER 8: New intelligence leaks and investigative reports published by major U.S. media outlets (The New York Times and The Washington Post) have uncovered a secret dossier containing over 150 documents, audio recordings, and text messages. The dossier documents the development and deployment of chemical weapons and chlorine-based bombs during the conflict in Sudan. Among other things, it is revealed that the Sudanese army tested a chemical weapons operation during fighting to retake Khartoum in 2024.
ew documents provide highly incriminating evidence against officials in Khartoum, confirming that Sudan’s military used chemical weapons to counter the advance of paramilitary forces. According to reports by The Washington Post and The New York Times, chlorine bombs were developed and used for at least six months, between July 2024 and January 2025.
Chlorine is a choking agent that can cause severe respiratory issues, lung damage, and death. Its use as a weapon is prohibited by the 1997 Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC). The France 24 investigation traced documents showing that an Indian company, Chemtrade International Corporation, exported the chlorine to Sudan. As a chemical warfare agent, chlorine was first used in World War I as a poison gas weapon.
Chlorine gas causes severe irritation and chemical burns when it reacts with the water in moist body tissues like your eyes, nose, throat, and lungs to form hydrochloric and hypochlorous acids. Fluid buildup in the lungs (pulmonary edema), acute breathing difficulty, and respiratory failure. Irritation in the nose and throat, coughing, wheezing, and chest tightness.
According to the investigation by France 24, army forces dropped barrels containing chlorine gas from the sky in their attempt to recapture the refinery from the Rapid Support Forces terrorists.
