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Anglo-African, Author ✍️ Open-Source Intelligence (#OSINT) & analysis 🔎Covering geopolitics, security, and conflicts in East #Africa. backup @afriosint1
Joined May 2015
Indeed. The UAE 🇦🇪 has provided the RSF with firearms, ATGMs, OWA drones, armoured vehicles, howitzers, CH-95 drones, etc. It has also deployed hundreds of foreign mercenaries recruited directly by the UAE 🇦🇪. All of this clearly points to Emirati involvement.
The RSF is killing everyone trying to leave El Fasher. Men, women, children and even animals. There’s already video of at least 100 people murdered. These massacres are enabled by the UAE, who, despite warnings this would happen, gave the RSF the tools it needed to break the city
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The Trump admin 🇺🇸 imposed sanctions on the 🇨🇴 mercenary network involved in recruiting and deploying Colombian fighters to Sudan 🇸🇩, but deliberately ignored the UAE’s 🇦🇪 originating role, which operated through the Abu Dhabi-based GSSG led by Emirati citizen Mohamed Al-Zaabi.
Thread ~ UAE 🇦🇪 recruits Colombians to fight alongside the RSF in Sudan 🇸🇩 The recruitment drive, launched by the UAE-based GSSG Security Service Group in late 2024, has so far deployed around 300 to 380 ex-military Colombian fighters to Sudan. 1/12
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Fourth cargo flight to Port Sudan 🇸🇩 A Sky Vision Airlines Airbus A321-231 cargo aircraft (w\ reg. SU-SKG) departed Cairo, Egypt 🇪🇬 and is now descending southbound, likely en route to Port Sudan 🇸🇩.
Busy day at Port Sudan 🇸🇩 Egyptian cargo operator 🇪🇬 Air Master Boeing 737-8F2 freighter (w\ reg. SU-SAW) is currently en route to Port Sudan 🇸🇩 after departing Istanbul, Turkey 🇹🇷. This marks the aircraft’s second flight in less than 12 hours.
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An Aerostan Airbus A300B4-103 cargo aircraft (reg. EX-30005, callsign BSC4040) departed from the UAE Air Force’s Al Reef Airbase in Abu Dhabi 🇦🇪 and is likely bound for Bosaso Airport in Puntland 🇸🇴. The aircraft has operated three flights to Bosaso Airport since 17 November.
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A UAE Air Force C-17A Globemaster III heavy military transport aircraft (w\ reg. 1229, callsign UAF1251) flew yesterday from Al Reef Airbase in Abu Dhabi 🇦🇪 to an unspecified destination in East Africa, most likely Harar Meda Airbase in Ethiopia 🇪🇹.
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A third flight by a Gelix Airlines IL-76TD cargo aircraft (w\ reg. RA-76373, callsign GC9814) took place today, departing Novosibirsk in Russia 🇷🇺, making a transit stop in Kuwait 🇰🇼, and continuing on to Harar Meda Airbase in Bishoftu, Ethiopia 🇪🇹.
🚨 A second flight by a Gelix Airlines IL-76TD cargo aircraft (w\ reg. RA-76373, callsign GC9812) took place today, departing Novosibirsk in Russia 🇷🇺, making a transit stop in Kuwait 🇰🇼, and continuing on to Harar Meda Airbase in Bishoftu, Ethiopia 🇪🇹.
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Busy day at Port Sudan 🇸🇩 Egyptian cargo operator 🇪🇬 Air Master Boeing 737-8F2 freighter (w\ reg. SU-SAW) is currently en route to Port Sudan 🇸🇩 after departing Istanbul, Turkey 🇹🇷. This marks the aircraft’s second flight in less than 12 hours.
An Aviacon Zitotrans 🇷🇺 IL-76TD cargo aircraft (w\ reg. RA-76834, callsign ZR6901) has also departed from Istanbul, Turkey 🇹🇷, and is currently flying over the Mediterranean en route to Port Sudan 🇸🇩.
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Suspicious flights today, 15 Dec A Fly Sky Airlines IL-76TD cargo aircraft (reg. EX-76017) departed eastern Libya 🇱🇾 and arrived at Bosaso Airport in Puntland, Somalia 🇸🇴. Meanwhile, another Fly Sky Airlines IL-76TD (reg. EX-76003) flew from Al Ain 🇦🇪 to Benghazi, Libya 🇱🇾.
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An Aviacon Zitotrans 🇷🇺 IL-76TD cargo aircraft (w\ reg. RA-76834, callsign ZR6901) has also departed from Istanbul, Turkey 🇹🇷, and is currently flying over the Mediterranean en route to Port Sudan 🇸🇩.
Egyptian cargo carrier 🇪🇬 Air Master’s Boeing 737-8F2 freighter w\ reg. SU-SAW has departed Istanbul, Turkey 🇹🇷 and is currently en route to Port Sudan Airport 🇸🇩.
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Egyptian cargo carrier 🇪🇬 Air Master’s Boeing 737-8F2 freighter w\ reg. SU-SAW has departed Istanbul, Turkey 🇹🇷 and is currently en route to Port Sudan Airport 🇸🇩.
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The Chinese-made, self-propelled short-to-medium-range air defence (SHORAD) system operated by the RSF and supplied by the UAE 🇦🇪 has been moved from its previously location at the UNAMID camp in Nyala, South Darfur, Sudan 🇸🇩 to another site.
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The RSF also seem to have tried setting up a secondary drone hub on Nyala Airport’s old main apron, but with little success. Of the two hangar structures, one was built but left unfinished, while the other was destroyed in a recent SAF 🇸🇩 airstrike.
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A closer look at suspected UAV ground control sites around Nyala Airport 🇸🇩 shows at least three GCS attached with circular array antennas 📡, likely SATCOM units linked to CH-95s. Compared to April 2025, the number of GCS appears to have risen from two to at least six or seven.
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A Badr Airlines Mitsubishi CRJ-200LR jet (reg. ST-BAT) operated a flight today from Juba, South Sudan 🇸🇸 to Port Sudan 🇸🇩, likely carrying Tut Gatluak, South Sudan’s presidential security advisor, who delivered a letter from Salva Kiir to the SAF leader Abdel Fattah al-Burhan.
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Fly Sky Airlines IL-76TD cargo aircraft (w\ reg. EX-76017) departed today from Bosaso Airport in Puntland, Somalia 🇸🇴, likely bound for Eastern Libya 🇱🇾.
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The northern apron at Nyala Airport appears to be the hub for the UAE-supplied 🇦🇪 CH-95 UCAVs. New hardened aircraft and drone shelters, along with hangars, have been constructed, though some may remain unfinished. The build-up followed SAF airstrikes on the airport in mid-2025.
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Nyala Airport in South Darfur, Sudan 🇸🇩 has become the RSF’s main base. Satellite imagery shows: - Newly completed structure near the runway - Likely CH-95 UCAV inside a new shelter - At least five drone GCS deployed around the airport, three fitted with apparent SATCOM units.
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The Bangladesh Armed Forces’ Inter Services Public Relations 🇧🇩 said in a statement on Sunday that a drone attack was carried out yesterday by “separatist armed groups” on the Kadugli Logistics Base of the UNISFA, Sudan 🇸🇩. https://t.co/DnMIHRoy1t
reuters.com
At least six Bangladeshi peacekeepers were killed and eight injured in an attack on a United Nations base in Abyei, Sudan, the Bangladesh Army said on Saturday.
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Fly Sky Airlines IL-76TD cargo aircraft (reg. EX-76018) departed Al Ain Airport, UAE 🇦🇪, and landed earlier today at Benina Airport, Benghazi, Eastern Libya 🇱🇾.
An unidentified Batot Air 🇧🇫 [cargo] aircraft (w\ reg. XT-TBO, callsign: BTO4101) has departed Al Ain Airport 🇦🇪 and is now flying over KSA, likely en route to eastern Libya 🇱🇾. It has made two flights to E. Libya 🇱🇾 recently, on 1 and 12 Dec. Great catch by @Borrowed7Time
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Busy day in Ethiopia? Fly Sky Airlines 🇰🇬 IL-76TD cargo aircraft (w\ reg. EX-76003, callsign: FY4950) also departed Al Reef Airbase in Abu Dhabi 🇦🇪, likely heading to Harar Meda Airbase, Ethiopia 🇪🇹, with tracking last showing it at 29,975 ft over Dire Dawa 🇪🇹.
Suspicious UAE-linked 🇦🇪 flights to Ethiopia are on the rise. Today, Zebu Air’s IL-76TD cargo aircraft (w\ reg. 7Q-ASU) operated a flight from Al Reef Airbase in Abu Dhabi 🇦🇪 to Harar Meda Airbase in Ethiopia 🇪🇹.
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The UN, with support from the SAF, has evacuated the bodies of Bangladeshi UNISFA peacekeepers killed in a drone strike by the UAE-backed 🇦🇪 Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which targeted a logistics base of the peacekeeping contingent in Kadugli, Sudan’s South Kordofan 🇸🇩.
UAE-backed 🇦🇪 RSF reportedly carried out a drone strike today on the UN camp in Kadugli, South Kordofan, Sudan 🇸🇩. At least three missiles were fired on the camp, killing six peacekeepers and injuring seven others. All casualties were members of the Bangladesh Battalion 🇧🇩.
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