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1,000 Sudanese militiamen arrive in Libya to support warlord Haftar |
2019-07-27 |
[Libya Observer] The first batch of Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia has arrived in the oil crescent region in central Libya to protect oil installations in order to allow forces loyal to warlord Khalifa Haftar![]() to concentrate all their power on the Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... attack, Sudan’s Radio Dabanga reported Thursday. Speaking to Radio Dabanga, a source estimated the number of troops to be about 1,000 out of the 4,000 troops expected to arrive in Libya in the next few months. The RSF militia is made attractive by offering relatively high levels of pay. Earlier, Al Jazeera unveiled documents that prove Sudan used its airspace to transport hundreds of mercenaries, recruited by Mohammed Hamdan Delgo (Hemitti) - deputy head of military council in Sudan -, from the Arab tribes in Darfur as well as neighbouring African countries to Libya, Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... and Eritrea ...is run by the People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ), with about the amounts of democracy and justice you'd expect from a party with that name. National elections have been periodically scheduled and cancelled; none have ever been held in the country. The president, Isaias Afewerki, has been in office since independence in 1993 and will probably die there of old age... . |
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