At least 10,000 Sudanese troops of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have reportedly returned from Yemen in a gradual drawdown of the Sudanese soldiers participating in the Saudi-led war against the Iran-backed Houthi rebels.
The surprising withdrawal has been announced by the SRF General Commander Mohamed Hamdan Daglo (Hemetti) who is also a member of the Sovereign Council in a joint meeting held on Monday including the two bodies of the transitional authority and the Forces for Freedom and Change (FFC).
While the withdrawal has not explained by RSF, intelligence reveals that the troops are keenly trying to rehabilitate their image back in Sudan which has been in disarray since the ouster of Omar el-Bashir. Additionally, military officials have maintained that it was just a partial withdrawal but stressed that it does not mean that Sudan is quitting the coalition.
The Sudanese officials have said that the RSF participating in the Yemen war reached over 40,000 when the conflict was at its peak in 2016-2017. Late October, Saudi forces have been deployed in Aden as the UAE withdrew its troops from Yemen.
Since last June, the Emirati army scaled down its troops in Yemen, after the international pressure to end the conflict which triggered a grave humanitarian crisis.
