Child soldiers in Sudan describe Colombian mercenaries in the RSF's ranks

Six boys who were abducted and forced to fight for the Rapid Support Forces have described to the Associated Press, anonymously for fear of reprisal, how they were used in a war now entering its fourth year. A 17-year-old says he was shackled to an anti-aircraft gun mounted on a pickup and ordered to fire at Sudanese warplanes over Khartoum while another child was chained to the steering wheel; two of the boys say they were trained by Colombians. The accounts are rare firsthand testimony about the tens of thousands of children believed to have been conscripted by all sides.

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