{"id":249286,"date":"2026-11-07T02:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-11-07T00:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/ethiopia-un-report-says-uae-firm-hired-colombian-mercenaries-to-fight-in-sudan-raising-questions-over-abu-dhabis-un-chief-bid\/"},"modified":"2026-11-07T02:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-11-07T00:00:09","slug":"ethiopia-un-report-says-uae-firm-hired-colombian-mercenaries-to-fight-in-sudan-raising-questions-over-abu-dhabis-un-chief-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/ethiopia-un-report-says-uae-firm-hired-colombian-mercenaries-to-fight-in-sudan-raising-questions-over-abu-dhabis-un-chief-bid\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia: UN Report Says UAE Firm Hired Colombian Mercenaries to Fight in Sudan, Raising Questions Over Abu Dhabi&#8217;s UN Chief Bid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"52\"><em>Addis Abeba<\/em>&#8211; A confidential UN report reportedly details how an Abu Dhabi-based security company with links to the Emirati ruling family recruited and deployed hundreds of Colombian former military personnel to fight alongside Sudan&#8217;s Rapid Support Forces, intensifying questions over the UAE&#8217;s nomination of diplomat Lana Nusseibeh to lead the United Nations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"48\">The report, submitted to the UN Security Council in early November and disclosed by <em>The New York Times<\/em> on November 5, identifies Global&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202611060212.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow 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>Addis Abeba&#8211; A confidential UN report reportedly details how an Abu Dhabi-based security company with links to the Emirati ruling family recruited and deployed hundreds of Colombian former military personnel to fight alongside Sudan&#8217;s Rapid Support Forces, intensifying questions over the UAE&#8217;s nomination of diplomat Lana Nusseibeh to lead the United Nations. The report, submitted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":249287,"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":[11554,258,256,10798,6510,50076,15366,4716,4345,7559,27145,4405,257,5152,18099,5144,254,4708,1613,3779],"class_list":["post-249286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-abu","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bid","tag-chief","tag-colombian","tag-dhabis","tag-ethiopia","tag-fight","tag-firm","tag-hired","tag-mercenaries","tag-news","tag-questions","tag-raising","tag-report","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-uae"],"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\/249286","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=249286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}