{"id":466,"date":"2020-01-29T10:38:23","date_gmt":"2020-01-29T10:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.avtuae.org\/en\/?p=466"},"modified":"2020-01-31T09:49:31","modified_gmt":"2020-01-31T09:49:31","slug":"arabic-press-review-sudans-sons-recruited-by-uae-company-as-fighters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.avtuae.com\/en\/?p=466","title":{"rendered":"Arabic press review: Sudan&#8217;s sons recruited by UAE company as fighters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sudanese protesters in front of the UAE embassy in Khartoum on Sunday (Twitter\/@salma1siddig)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>By Mohammad Ayesh, 27 January 2020, Middle East Eye<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">UAE company imports fighters from Sudan<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>A number of Sudanese families have held a protest in front of the embassy of the United Arab Emirates in the capital Khartoum. They are protesting&nbsp;what they say are contracts between an Emirati company&nbsp;and their sons to send them to fight in Yemen and Libya, according to the Al-Quds Al-Arabi&nbsp;newspaper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The protesters say a company is recruiting young Sudanese men&nbsp;as security guards for private companies in the UAE, but the men arrive there, they are surprised by the choices they are given:&nbsp;either fighting in Yemen or Libya.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Witnesses reported that dozens of Sudanese organised a protest in front of the UAE embassy on Sunday, and held banners reading: &#8220;No to mercenarism,&#8221; &#8220;No to charlatanism,&#8221; &#8220;No to deception,&#8221; according to the London-based newspaper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A Sudanese family demanded the transitional government on Friday to intervene to return their son, who has been detained in a training camp for three months, from the UAE, after he and others were &#8220;deceived&#8221;, the report added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Twitter users published samples of the contracts for security guard positions&nbsp;in the UAE.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A few days earlier, activists revealed the involvement of the Emirati company in recruiting about 3,000 Sudanese young men and turning them into mercenaries, according to\u00a0Al-Quds Al-Arabi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: Middle East Eye<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sudanese protesters in front of the UAE embassy in Khartoum on Sunday (Twitter\/@salma1siddig) By Mohammad Ayesh, 27 January 2020, Middle East Eye UAE company imports fighters from Sudan A number of Sudanese families have held a protest in front of the embassy of the United Arab Emirates in the capital Khartoum. They are protesting&nbsp;what they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":467,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[18,38,41,40,19,16],"class_list":["post-466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-comment","tag-human-rights","tag-libya","tag-mercenaries","tag-sudan","tag-uae","tag-yemen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.avtuae.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.avtuae.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.avtuae.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.avtuae.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.avtuae.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=466"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.avtuae.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":474,"href":"http:\/\/www.avtuae.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions\/474"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.avtuae.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.avtuae.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.avtuae.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.avtuae.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}