Sudanese mercenary forces leave Shabwah, hand over positions to UAE-backed militias

SHABWAH, Jan. 1 (YPA) – Sudanese mercenary troops have left Shabwah province, southeastern Yemen, heading for the Arabian sea city of Mukalla, local sources said on Wednesday.

According to local sources, the Saudi-led coalition leadership informed the local authorities in the province, the departure of a military force from the al-Alam and Balhaf camps where Emirati forces are stationed.

This force on its way to Camp Al-Rayyan in the city of Mukalla, the center of Hadhramaut province in eastern Yemen.

Sources at the Balhaf oil facility, said that Sudanese mercenary forces tasked with protecting the towers left on Tuesday morning and were replaced by militias  from the UAE-backed Shabwani elite.

Sudanese troops from the Saudi-led aggression coalition against Yemen have already left from the west coast fronts and elsewhere, returning to Sudan.

Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok said in early December that his country had reduced the number of its troops in Yemen from 15,000 to 5,000.

E.M