Libya linked to Sudan’s RSF military camp as UN condemns arms flow amid ongoing Darfur conflict
A video report released by the UK-based Centre for Information Resilience used satellite imagery, online videos, and photographs to trace vehicles from the site to Sudan’s Zamzam displacement camp.
Despite Libya’s repeated denials of supporting Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF), new research has linked the paramilitary group to a military camp in the Libyan desert near al-Kufra, believed to back its operations in Sudan’s Darfur region.
A video report released by the UK-based Centre for Information Resilience (CIR), titled How we found an RSF military camp in the Libyan desert, used satellite imagery, online videos, and photographs to trace vehicles from the site to Sudan’s Zamzam displacement camp.
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In April, RSF fighters killed at least 100 people there.
According to CIR, the Libyan camp is connected to RSF General Hamdane al-Kajli, head of security for Abdul Rahim Hamdan Dagalo, the RSF’s second-in-command.
Hamdane was reportedly seen in Zamzam several times in April.
CIR investigators say he was seriously injured near El Fasher during the same month before being taken to the Turkish Hospital in Nyala for treatment.
Large vehicle convoys
The report also includes videos showing large convoys of armed Toyota Land Cruisers at the Libyan base. The same vehicles—without licence plates but with identical modifications, weapons, and spray-painted numbers—were later spotted in Zamzam.
CIR states that the camp also hosts Colombian mercenaries and other foreign fighters assisting the RSF in battles around El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur, which has been under siege for 18 months.
The group claims the RSF is moving large quantities of weapons and equipment into Darfur through Libya, echoing a 2024 UN experts’ report. That report said the RSF violated an arms embargo by using supply routes from Abu Dhabi through Chad and Libya.
UN Secretary-General António Guterres has strongly condemned the ongoing movement of weapons and foreign fighters into Sudan. He has called on all nations to end any form of support that fuels the conflict.
RSF commander charged
This development comes just a week after a court in Port Sudan charged RSF commander Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo—widely known as Hemedti—his brothers Abdul Rahim and Al-Nour, and 13 others with genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity over the April 2023 attack on El Geneina, the capital of West Darfur.
One of the defendants, Abd al-Rahman Jumaa, is accused of leading the assault, ordering the killing of West Darfur governor Khamis Abdullah Abkar in June 2023, and committing atrocities against the Masalit community, including allegedly burying some victims alive.
Prosecutors say the other accused played key roles in planning or carrying out attacks involving rape, torture, and looting, worsening the humanitarian crisis in the region.
Sudan’s civil war erupted in April 2023, when fighting broke out between the national army and the RSF. Since then, the conflict has killed tens of thousands and displaced more than 13 million people.
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