South Sudanese and Ethiopian Mercenaries Mutiny and Withdraw from the Outskirts of Al-Kormuk
Blue Nile (Sudanese Echoes) – The combat capabilities of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia and its allies from the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement and Ethiopian groups on the Blue Nile front have fallen to their lowest levels following a wave of mutinies and large-scale withdrawals from their ranks on Saturday morning.
Multiple sources from the outskirts of Al-Kormuk reported that divisions had emerged within the militia following a mutiny by officers and fighters among mercenaries belonging to the Nuer ethnic group and Ethiopian groups. The mutiny came after they were ordered to advance to the front lines to compensate for the shortage caused by the withdrawal of large numbers of militia members belonging to the Mahariya and Messeiriya tribes, alongside the flight of members of the Hamouda Al-Bishi group towards South Sudan.
In the same context, the sources indicated that the militia’s second-in-command, Abdel Rahim Dagalo, issued urgent orders to withdraw groups of these mercenaries and redeploy them to the battlefronts in Darfur.
The orders were met with outright rejection and military disobedience by Nuer and Ethiopian fighters, who carried out a collective withdrawal from the battlefield on Saturday morning, placing the militia in a critical military predicament on this strategic front.