Khartoum: Five Sudanese soldiers have been killed while fighting for the Saudi Arabia-led coalition against Iran-backed Al Houthi forces in Yemen, a spokesperson for Sudan’s armed forces said on Wednesday.
The statement was a rare acknowledgement of casualties suffered by Sudan since the east African nation sent hundreds of its soldiers to Yemen in 2015 to bolster Gulf Arab troops in the southern port city of Aden trying to keep out Al Houthi rebels.
The army did not specify when the troops were killed.
“We lost five martyrs and 22 others have been wounded... we inflicted huge losses on the enemy and are holding many prisoners of war,” said army spokesperson Brigadier General Ahmad Khalifa Al Shami.
The two year conflict pits the armed Al Houthi group against the internationally-recognised government of President Abd Rabbo Mansour Hadi backed by a Saudi-led Arab alliance.
