SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Sudan Tribune - UAE security firm repatriates Sudanese youth from Libya after protests

29/1/2020: Sudan Tribune - UAE security firm repatriates Sudanese youth from Libya after protests

Sudan Tribune reports that Sudanese youth who had been sent to Libya by the Black Shield, an Emirati security firm, returned to Sudan following protests outside the UAE embassy.

The families of the returnees accuse the UAE’s government of being behind the Black Shield security company.

The Black Shield signed contracts with 300 Sudanese youth to work as security guards in the UAE. But, once they arrived in the UAE, they received military training and sent to Libya against their will.

The involvement of the UAE-based security firm in this affair comes amid reports of senior Sudanese officials supporting the UAE in attempts to help Libyan General Khalifa Haftar in his war against the UN-backed government.

The families of the youth said that their children were sent to guard strategic locations and oil refineries in areas controlled by Haftar’s forces.