Ahmed Fadl - Khartoum
The war between the Libyan parties continuously attracts the forces of the Sudanese armed movements, in exchange for being dumped in money and weapons; This revitalized these groups after the interruption of funding and external support for years.

About 7 Sudanese factions are fighting in Libya, most of them supporting the forces of retired Major General Khalifa Hifter, who controls eastern Libya.
In an interview with Al-Jazeera Net, an employee of the United Nations team in Libya confirmed that the Sudanese fighters are increasing, after new armed movements entered the mercenary track in Libya.

In the absence of statistics for the Sudanese fighters among the fighting parties in Libya, the employee believes that they are about two thousand fighters.

It seems difficult to stop the flow of Sudanese fighters into Libya across the open border between the two countries, where human traffickers are active, although the Sudanese Rapid Support Forces have recently arrested 122 people, including 8 children, in Darfur, who were going to work as mercenaries in Libya.

Inflamed borders
The Sudanese government acknowledges the work of Sudanese mercenaries in Libya, but says that her hand is tied because she cannot interfere in Libya, which is suffering from a confusing situation.

According to Ismail Tirab, deputy head of the National Committee to Combat Human Trafficking, the committee is the highest authority in this file, and it is aware of Sudanese involvement in fighting within the parties in Libya, and has documented information discussed in its meetings, but it cannot override the sovereignty of another country.

In an interview with Al-Jazeera Net, Terab points out that the Sudanese-Libyan border was a hotbed for human trafficking, but now it is also a hotbed of mercenary flow.

And excludes the involvement of individuals in the mercenary according to his experience and information he has, but notes that the recruitment is carried out by armed movements that have agreements with the parties to the war in Libya in exchange for weapons and salaries.

He adds that the Sudanese government does not now have any official contacts with the internationally recognized government of Al-Wefaq in Libya, given the problems the latter suffers from, and the International Organization for Migration, which opened its headquarters in Tripoli, suffers from restrictions in the movement.

A lucrative war, and
with the fighting fronts in Darfur and the Southern Kordofan and Blue Nile regions stalled by the rebels negotiating with the government, Sudanese armed movements are active in the fighting in Libya, which generates huge funds and advanced weapons on these movements, which have lost support from regional supporters, and their control over the ground in Sudan has diminished. .

The UN employee in Libya counts 6 Sudanese armed groups, most of whom are fighting alongside Haftar, but he denied the participation of the forces affiliated with the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North (SPLM) led by Abdel Aziz El Helou.

It was reported that after a visit to Abu Dhabi earlier this year, Al-Hilo agreed with the Emiratis to pay the soldiers of his movement to fight in Libya in exchange for salaries for 6 months.

The employee says that the message of the Panel of Experts on Sudan addressed to the UN Security Council last January warned that Darfurian groups had increased their military capacity in Libya, "through new equipment from the national army and large-scale recruitment."

Various loyalties
According to the message of the Panel of Experts on Sudan, the Sudan Liberation Movement led by Minni Arko Minawi is the largest Sudanese group in Libya, with a strength of 1,000 fighters between 250 and 300 SUVs.

There are also fighting forces of the Sudan Liberation Army (Abd al-Wahid Nour wing) under the command of Yusuf Karjakula, who commands an increase in force of 90 vehicles, in addition to forces belonging to the Transitional Council, and they are separated from the Abd al-Wahid movement, led by Saleh Jabal Si.

The letter refers to a Sudan Liberation Forces force consisting of 100 vehicles, led by Aboud Adam Khater, and all of these groups support Haftar's forces.

The letter identified a small force of the Justice and Equality Movement in Qatron (southern Libya), led by Abdul Karim Choloy, who was active against Haftar.

As for the supporters of Musa Hilal, the leader of the Darfuri Mahamid tribe, they are also based in southern Libya, but they are divided in loyalty between Haftar and the government of reconciliation.

Hilal supporters fled to Libya after his arrest by his rival forces, Muhammad Hamdan Daglo (Hamidati), commander of the Rapid Support Forces, and moved him from his "rested" area of ​​North Darfur to Khartoum in November 2017.

Tabkat Hamidati
and the Revolutionary Awakening Council - which includes the supporters of Musa Hilal - denied any presence of its members in Libya or elsewhere, after the RSF arrested this week 122 people who said they were following the council and were going to work as mercenaries in Libya.

According to a statement by the Awakening Council last Monday, the Rapid Support Forces, through this "dish," wanted to improve their image in front of the Sudanese.

People close to Musa Hilal told Al Jazeera Net that the Rapid Support Forces, which had imposed control on a "rest", had been active last year in recruiting youth, including a palace, to fight in Libya in exchange for being lured by money.

But recruitment campaigns were interrupted by an international report in November 2019, where he accused Hamidati of sending his forces to fight alongside Haftar in Libya, forcing the first to quickly withdraw his forces and land under the misdemeanor of Khartoum airport.

A Sudanese activist working in Libya denies that people who were stopped by quick support in Al-Geneina city in West Darfur are mercenaries. "Indeed, there are Sudanese mercenaries who are affiliated with the armed movements, and we sometimes communicate with them to take advantage of their relationship with a pigeon to release victims from human traffickers' prisons," he says to Al Jazeera Net.

He says he saw a base that includes Sudanese mercenaries in the "Al-Jaghboub" area (south of Libya), and they were moved west to the fringes of Tripoli to fight alongside Haftar, and after his defeat, the leaders of these mercenaries moved east to Benghazi and the airport of Al-Kharouqa a month ago.