{"id":185573,"date":"2024-11-29T12:57:55","date_gmt":"2024-11-29T10:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-colombian-mercenaries-fighting-in-sudan-with-alleged-uae-links\/"},"modified":"2024-11-29T12:57:55","modified_gmt":"2024-11-29T10:57:55","slug":"sudan-colombian-mercenaries-fighting-in-sudan-with-alleged-uae-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-colombian-mercenaries-fighting-in-sudan-with-alleged-uae-links\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: &#8216;Colombian Mercenaries Fighting in Sudan With Alleged UAE Links&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"51\">El Fasher \/ Dubai \/ Abu Dhabi \/ Benghazi \/ Bogot\u00e1 \u2014 <em>At least 300 Colombian ex-soldiers are reportedly fighting in Sudan, according to an investigative report by Colombian news site, <em>La Silla Vac\u00eda<\/em>, published on Tuesday. The report alleges that the soldiers were drawn into the ongoing conflict through a cross-border operation involving four countries, chiefly spearheaded by the United Arab Emirates.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"61\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasillavacia.com\/silla-nacional\/me-quiero-devolver-hay-mas-de-300-exmilitares-colombianos-en-la-guerra-de-sudan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">According to the original report<\/a>, the operation involved Colombian ex-soldiers being recruited&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202411290010.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Sudan\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/sudan\/\">Sudan<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>El Fasher \/ Dubai \/ Abu Dhabi \/ Benghazi \/ Bogot\u00e1 \u2014 At least 300 Colombian ex-soldiers are reportedly fighting in Sudan, according to an investigative report by Colombian news site, La Silla Vac\u00eda, published on Tuesday. The report alleges that the soldiers were drawn into the ongoing conflict through a cross-border operation involving four [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":185574,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[258,256,4305,50076,4377,6057,4405,257,254,4708,1613,3779],"class_list":["post-185573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-alleged","tag-colombian","tag-fighting","tag-links","tag-mercenaries","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-uae"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}