Cross-border networks recruit fighters for Sudan war
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Senego
Cross-border networks are reportedly recruiting fighters from Somalia and Ethiopia’s Tigray region for parties involved in the war in Sudan. Ethiopia Insight reports that these networks are part of regional military interventions and human trafficking operations fuelling the Sudanese conflict.
Ethiopia Insight reports a cross-border network recruiting fighters to fuel the war in Sudan, with activities reported from Somalia to Ethiopia’s Tigray region. The platform says these networks combine recruitment, human trafficking and regional military interventions on behalf of parties involved in the Sudanese conflict.
Ethiopia Insight notably refers to military training centres in Somalia and networks recruiting young fighters in Ethiopia’s Tigray region to create supply lines to the Sudanese army, its Islamist allies and armed movements. The platform believes this organisation is helping transform an internal conflict in Sudan into a confrontation supported by cross-border infrastructure.
The platform Sawt al-Qarn al-Afriqi, “The Voice of the Horn of Africa”, for its part says Saudi Arabia supervised a military training programme in Somalia’s Galgaduud region. According to an earlier publication by the platform on X, more than 5,000 Somali recruits were reportedly trained as mercenaries before being deployed to Sudan alongside the army led by Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, head of the Sudanese army.
