US EditionFrom the Andes to Darfur: Colombians Lured to Sudan's Killing Fields
Zeuz Global, a UK-registered firm, facilitated recruitment of 300-400 Colombian mercenaries for Sudan’s RSF, amid allegations of genocide and mass atrocities in Darfur.
- On December 9, the United States Department of the Treasury sanctioned four Colombian nationals and their companies after British reporting found UK-linked operators hiring Colombians to fight with the Rapid Support Forces.
- Routes ran through the United Arab Emirates, eastern Libya and Bosaso, Somalia with Bogotá-based A4SI and retired colonel Alvaro Andres Quijano Becerra coordinating deployments.
- US Department of the Treasury reports `since September 2024, hundreds of former Colombian military personnel have traveled to Sudan to fight alongside the RSF`, with 300–400 mercenaries paid $2,500 to $4,000 monthly and linked to atrocities in Darfur.
- The humanitarian toll includes 14 million displaced, while Sudan has launched a genocide case at the International Court of Justice amid thousands of deaths and UK Companies House vetting concerns.
- Emirati officials reject allegations of support to combatants, repeatedly denying arms supply to Rapid Support Forces, while analysts highlight UAE interests in Sudan’s gold, farmland, and Red Sea coast, and AFP traced recruitment from the Andes to Darfur this year.
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From the Andes to Darfur: Colombians lured to Sudan's killing fields
Hundreds of Colombian ex-soldiers have been drawn to Sudan with the promise of bumper Emirati paychecks. What many found instead was death in a faraway war marked by mass killing, rape, famine and child recruitment.
Colombian mercenaries in Sudan ’hired’ by UK-based firm: report
Sanctioned individuals living in the UK have hired Colombian mercenaries to fight with the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group in Sudan, where they have been accused of genocide and other atrocities, an investigation by British newspaper The Guardian has revealed. The hiring of such mercenaries has reportedly taken place from a north London flat linked to a transnational network of recruitment companies, according to UK government reco…
The United Arab Emirates continues to deny supporting the RSF in Sudan's civil war. Hundreds of former Colombian soldiers were lured to Sudan by the promise of high salaries from the United Arab Emirates.
The Sudanese government says that as many as 80 Colombians joined the siege since August and that at least 43 were killed. Their families are looking for answers.
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