Houthis smuggle weapons into Sudan to ignite the situation

The Huthi terrorist militia has intensified the transfer of smuggled arms, ammunition, and mines from Yemen to Sudan, to fuel the conflict in the African country.

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Several media reports revealed that the militias are sending smuggled arms shipments from Hodeidah province on the Red Sea to the Sudanese coast on the other side of the sea, in conjunction with the continuing conflict in Sudan for the second week, as gun smuggling operations by the Houthi militia to areas in Sudan in addition to Somalia have increased dramatically over the past period, and that the Houthis have already turned Hodeidah province into a scene for arms transfers and smuggling to conflict areas across the Red Sea.

“Terrorist militias have reportedly shipped more than 7,000 weapons recently, along with attack shells and artillery shells, using three boats (large fishing boats) from Hodeidah to Sudan.”

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Major General Mohammed Abdul Wahid, a strategic expert, and specialist in African affairs, said that the smuggling of weapons supplied by Iran to its allies the Houthis in Yemen is being smuggled through the Gulf of Aden to Somalia, Sudan, and Djibouti, and this is documented by the Global Initiative to Combat Transnational Organized Crime. He noted that from Yemen to Sudan, the Houthis are using the United Nations truce to disrupt security in the region.

The strategic expert added: The Houthi militia, through its arms smuggling mafia, received requests from local Sudanese parties to send weapons to Sudan after the coast of Hodeidah turned into a center for arms smuggling to African countries, especially those bordering the Red Sea. He pointed out that the smuggling of Houthi militias into Sudan indicates that Iran seeks to find a foothold in African countries through allies of the Houthi militia, explaining that the Houthi militia’s smuggling of weapons to Sudan comes as part of Iranian movements seeking to “impose control on the Red Sea.”