Sudanese sources told Al-Jazeera that a joint security force along the border with Libya had arrested 160 people, including foreigners, who were going to fight in Libya as mercenaries.
Lt. Col. Adam Mohamed Salih, representative of the Rapid Support Forces, said that his forces seized 80 people on their way to Libya to work as mercenaries. On Sunday, they seized 80 people, including foreigners from Syria, who were heading to the locations of the warring forces in Libya.
The Sudanese border is adjacent to the Kafra region (southeast of Libya), which is under the control of the militias of retired Major General Khalifa Hifter, while it is away from Tripoli, the seat of the internationally recognized government, 1850 km.
On Tuesday, the Syrian regime announced that it would operate three flights a week to Egypt in one direction, which raises questions, according to observers, about its usefulness, especially the absence of a large Egyptian community in Syria, and in light of the Syrian regime's announcement of its support for Haftar and confirmation of reports of its transfer of mercenaries to fight alongside the latter.
For his part, the director of police in North Darfur, Major General Yahya Mohamed Nour said that this seizure absolves Sudan of many accusations that have been brought by some parties (unnamed) by sending mercenaries to fight in Libya.
On Tuesday, hundreds of Sudanese demonstrated in front of the UAE embassy in the capital, Khartoum, to protest their misinformation by sending them to fight in Libya instead of working in Abu Dhabi.
The Libyan Foreign Ministry welcomed the announcement by Sudan on June 28 the arrest of 122 armed men who were going to fight in Libya as mercenaries within the militia of Haftar.
On the same day, a spokesman for the forces of the National Accord Government, Colonel Mohamed Kanounou, said that his country was waging a war against mercenaries supported by regional and global countries after Haftar's failure.
Libya, the northwestern neighbor to Sudan, is suffering from armed conflict as militia of retired Major General Khalifa Haftar is fighting the internationally recognized government over the legitimacy and authority of the oil-rich country.
The Haftar militia, with Arab and European support, launched an aggression against Tripoli, starting from April 4, 2019, before the National Accord Forces achieved victories over them and liberated the entire administrative borders of the capital and the cities of Tarhuna, Bani Walid, the cities of the West Coast, the Al-Watiyah Air Base, and the towns of the Western Mountain.