The Sudanese forces participating in the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen have withdrawn from a number of areas based in the West Coast Front in the province of Hodeidah (west of Yemen), military sources said.
The sources said that the joint forces backed by the United Arab Emirates, consisting of 11 brigades, which was recently formed in the West Coast, has been resolved at the sites from which the Sudanese forces withdrew.
The withdrawal of the Sudanese forces is followed by a partial withdrawal of the UAE forces from this front carried out days ago, which may be interpreted as an attempt to disrupt and weaken the West Coast Front.
Saudi forces and reinforcements have recently arrived to replace the retreating UAE forces. Abu Dhabi says it is not about withdrawing its troops from Yemen, but a redeployment.
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Mohamed Hamdan Hamidati, deputy head of Sudan's transitional military council, said last month that his country's troops, which are part of the war in Yemen, numbered 30,000 soldiers, most of them the former Sudanese government's rapid support force in the Darfur conflict.
The New York Times reported in the past few weeks that 40 percent of the Sudanese soldiers in Yemen are children trained in areas on the Saudi-Yemeni border, divided into units ranging from 500 to 750 fighters.
Last year, Sudanese forces demanded the withdrawal of troops from Yemen, after losing the doctrine of its existence and the loss of a group of soldiers in its confrontation with the Huthis. Among these forces is an alliance calling itself the National Line of Forces, which has submitted a memorandum to the government and parliament, Same as the Popular Congress Party led by Ali Haj.