A video circulating on social media appears to show Colombian combatants fighting alongside the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) against the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) in El Fasher, North Darfur.
🇨🇴 #Colombia – 🇸🇩 #Sudan: A video showing Colombian mercenaries fighting alongside Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in the siege of El Fasher.
Since Monday, the RSF has launched a major new assault on Al-Fashir. The fighting reportedly began with heavy shelling on targets across the… pic.twitter.com/YkMuwIG5Ql
— POPULAR FRONT (@PopularFront_) August 14, 2025
It is not clear when the clashes occurred. The video has not been independently verified.
The footage emerged days after local media reported that a video recovered from a captured Colombian mercenary’s phone showed Colombian fighters alongside the RSF at Nyala Airport in South Darfur, an area under RSF control.
Footage has emerged recently showing Colombian 🇨🇴 mercenaries, brought by the UAE 🇦🇪 to fight alongside the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in Sudan 🇸🇩. pic.twitter.com/mgp2JYakaL
— Rich Tedd 🛰 ✈️ (@AfriMEOSINT) August 3, 2025
The emergence of the videos comes after Sudan accused the United Arab Emirates (UAE) of sending Colombian mercenaries to Sudan to support the RSF in the country’s civil war.
Last week, Sudan’s air force claimed via state TV that it had destroyed a UAE aircraft believed to be carrying Colombian mercenaries as it landed at Nyala Airport, killing 40 people on board.
A UAE official told AFP that the report was “entirely false” and part of Sudan’s “ongoing campaign of disinformation and deflection.”
