Sudanese Opposition Calls for Withdrawal of Sudanese Forces from Yemen

Head of the Sudanese National Umma Party, Al-Sadiq Al-Mahdi, Saturday called for the withdrawal of Sudanese forces from Yemen.

Al-Mahdi told Al-Sudani international newspaper, published Saturday: “There is no justification for the presence of any Sudanese fighter in Yemen, war is a crime, that is, a war that cannot be interceded except as a defense of the homeland.”

“Therefore, we demand that there be no Sudanese soldiers fighting outside the principle of defending the homeland”, he said.

And he added, “Sudan’s natural role is to enter into reconciliations, as it did in the sixties (1967) between the Saudi King Faisal (bin Abdul Aziz) and the late Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser, as (as) what happened after that in the reconciliation between the Palestinians and Jordanians.” “Sudan always plays the consensual role, and does not take sides in the fratricidal battles.”

Al-Mahdi said that we must reclaim our role, and we are able to understand very much that the thing inherited from the ousted Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir’s regime (1989: 2019) has these burdens,” referring to the decision to participate in the Yemen war.

Sudanese forces have been fighting within the coalition of the forces of aggression against Yemen, led by Saudi Arabia and the UAE, since 2015.