SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Sudan Tribune - New UN report dismisses presence of Sudanese militiamen in Libya

19/1/2020: Sudan Tribune - New UN report dismisses presence of Sudanese militiamen in Libya  

Sudan Tribune reports that a UN panel of experts on Darfur contradicted reports by a UN panel of experts on Libya that the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) are fighting alongside General Khalifa Haftar in his war against the UN-recognized government.

On 9 December 2019, UN experts on Libya said that 1,000 RSF troops were deployed to Libya on 25 July 2019. But the UN panel on Darfur stressed the lack of credible evidence for these claims, as "many Arabs from Darfur and Chad who fight in Libya as individual mercenaries" hail from the same tribes as the majority of RSF fighters.

The Sudanese army and the RSF has also denied claims that they are in Libya.