Alwaght- Hundreds Sudanese troops have landed in Yemen’s southern port city of Aden to join Saudi Arabia’s military aggression against Yemen as reports emerged that the Sudanese president has been paid Billions of US dollars to send his troops to Yemen.
The Sudanese mercenaries will join Saudi-led forces preparing to confront Yemeni forces.
The new batch of troops will join another 500 Sudanese troops who arrived in Aden on October 19. There are thousands of foreign troops from countries such as Qatar, UAE, Bahrain and Egypt taking part in the illegal Saudi-led aggression on Yemen. The foreign troops are committing atrocities and war crimes against Yemenis in the regions they occupy in the war torn country.
The fresh deployment of Sudanese troops came as Yemeni forces have been making advances in the country’s south, seeking to capture the strategic city of Aden.
In August Sudanese officials announced that after they joined the coalition, Saudi Arabia deposited $1bn in the central bank. The reasons for the desposit were not disclosed.
The Sudanese minister of finance Badr al-Din Mahmoud last week claimed that Saudi Arabia has committed to invest 1.7 Billion U.S dollars for the constructions of three dams.
Total casualty figures for the Sudanese troops already in the country are unknown, although an official with the Sudanese defence ministry acknowledged on 24 October, five days after they entered Yemen, that 22 of their troops had been either killed, injured or kidnapped.
Saudi Arabia has been striking Yemen for eight months now to restore power to fugitive president Abed Rabbu Mansour Hadi, a close ally of Riyadh. The Saudi-led aggression has so far killed over 7, 100 Yemenis, mostly innocent civilians including hundreds of women and children.
Despite Riyadh’s claims that it is bombing the positions of the Ansarullah resistance fighters, who are warding off the foreign occupation of their country, Saudi warplanes are indiscriminately targeting residential areas and civilian infrastructure.