Port Sudan – almohagig
Transitional Sovereignty Council member, and Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Lieutenant General Shams El-Din Kabashi, began an official visit to the countries of Niger and Mali for several days, accompanied by Lieutenant General Yass Ibrahim, Minister of Defense.
This was according to a press statement published by the Transitional Sovereignty Council’s media, a copy of which Almohagig received.
The council’s statement stated that Kabashi will hold talks with the leaders of those countries during the visit, discussing the course of bilateral relations between them and Sudan and ways to enhance them, and the developments of the current war and its impact on the regional and international environment.
Sudanese officials have repeatedly accused the Rapid Support Forces rebels of recruiting mercenaries and militias from Chad, Niger and Mali to fight alongside them in the war that has been raging in Sudan since mid-April of last year.
Identical media sources say that thousands of members of the tribes shared between Sudan, Chad and Niger have already joined the fighting according to the customs of “fazza” – rescue – practised among those communities. Sudanese “loots” of vehicles, gold jewellery and household furniture, estimated at hundreds of thousands of dollars, are also being circulated, having found their way to those countries by members of the shared tribes who joined the war early on in favour of the Rapid Support Militia and seized homes and civilian property and looted what was inside them.
