United Nations, United States, Jan 20, 2020 – A United Nations panel said Monday it had no “credible evidence” of Sudanese paramilitaries fighting in conflict-wracked Libya for military strongman Khalifa Haftar as alleged bysome media outlets. Several Libyan and regional media outlets had claimed in recent months that hundreds of Sudanese paramilitaries from the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) were deployed in Libya to fight alongside Haftar’s Libyan Arab Armed Forces. But a UN panel of experts on Sudan dismissed these claims in a report released on Monday. “The panel has no credible evidence of the presence of Rapid Support Forces in Libya,” the report said. The group fought Sudanese government forces for years during the regime of Omar al-Bashir, who was deposed during street protests in April last year.

Source: The North Africa Journal January 21, 2020 17:03 UTC