UAE continues to transfer fighters from Yemen to Sudan

SHABWA, Sept. 23 (YPA) – The UAE is working to transfer Yemeni militants from Shabwa provinces outside Yemen, acceding to Yemeni activists in coalition-controlled areas.

The activists explained that helicopters and military cargo planes have been working since the last week to transport hundreds of recruits from the factions affiliated with Abu Dhabi through Ataq Airport to unknown destinations.

They added that continuous transfers are taking place between the Balhaf facility designated for exporting gas, to Ataq airport before the fighters board the planes, amid strict secrecy about the destination to which the planes depart.

Activists from Shabwa reported at the beginning of this September that the UAE was training 400 fighters at the Balhaf facility, in preparation for transporting them to Sudan to fight alongside the Sudanese Rapid Support Forces led by UAE-backed leader Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, known as Hemedti.

Last May, Yemeni Press Agency published a report about the UAE sending its Yemeni recruits from the city of Mokha of Hadramout province, to Sudan, before the Sudanese army commander, Abdel Fattah Burhan, announced at the beginning of this September that there were Yemeni fighters fighting alongside his opponents in the Rapid Support Forces in Sudan.

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