{"id":231500,"date":"2026-04-26T15:51:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T13:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-the-uae-backed-colombian-mercenary-network-behind-sudans-el-fasher-atrocities\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T15:51:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T13:51:35","slug":"sudan-the-uae-backed-colombian-mercenary-network-behind-sudans-el-fasher-atrocities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-the-uae-backed-colombian-mercenary-network-behind-sudans-el-fasher-atrocities\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: The UAE-Backed Colombian Mercenary Network Behind Sudan&#8217;s El Fasher Atrocities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"73\">An investigation by the Conflict Intelligence Group (CIG) has revealed the extensive use of Colombian mercenaries, backed by the United Arab Emirates, to fuel the Rapid Support Forces&#8217; (RSF) devastating campaigns in Sudan, including the devastating October 2025 attack on El Fasher. The investigation reveals that these foreign mercenary activities helped the RSF conquer El Fasher, a six-day attack that Yale&#8217;s Humanitarian Research Lab believes might have killed as many as 60,0000 people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">By&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604240058.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>An investigation by the Conflict Intelligence Group (CIG) has revealed the extensive use of Colombian mercenaries, backed by the United Arab Emirates, to fuel the Rapid Support Forces&#8217; (RSF) devastating campaigns in Sudan, including the devastating October 2025 attack on El Fasher. The investigation reveals that these foreign mercenary activities helped the RSF conquer El [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":231501,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[258,256,5815,50076,43880,40256,8265,257,254,4708,1613,8105,54276],"class_list":["post-231500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-atrocities","tag-colombian","tag-fasher","tag-mercenary","tag-network","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-sudans","tag-uaebacked"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/231500","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=231500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}