Colombian mercenaries in Sudan recruited by UK-registered firms'

"Close to Tottenham Hotspur's shiny football stadium in London is a squat, nondescript block of flats. It holds a grim secret beyond the unremarkable beige brickwork a cramped, second-floor apartment in the British capital, linked to murderous atrocities unfolding 3,000 miles south. The one-bedroom flat off north London's Creighton Road is, according to UK government records, tied to a transnational network of companies involved in the mass recruitment of mercenaries to fight in Sudan alongside paramilitaries accused of myriad war crimes and genocide."

"Hundreds of former Colombian military personnel have been enlisted to fight with Sudan's Rapid Support Forces (RSF), a paramilitary group responsible for mass rapes, ethnic slaughter and the systematic killing of women and children. Colombian mercenaries were directly involved in the paramilitaries' seizure of the south-western Sudanese city of El Fasher in late October, which prompted a killing frenzy that analysts say has cost at least 60,000 lives."

"The flat in Tottenham is registered to a company called Zeuz Global, set up by two individuals named and sanctioned last week by the US treasury for hiring Colombian mercenaries to fight for the RSF. Both figures Colombian nationals in their 50s are described in documents at Companies House, the government register of firms operating in the UK, as living in Britain. The firm is active."

A one-bedroom flat off Creighton Road in north London is registered to Zeuz Global, a company tied to transnational networks recruiting mercenaries to fight in Sudan. Hundreds of former Colombian military personnel were enlisted to fight alongside the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), a paramilitary group accused of mass rapes, ethnic slaughter and the systematic killing of women and children. Colombian mercenaries participated in the RSF seizure of El Fasher in late October, an operation analysts estimate has cost at least 60,000 lives. Two Colombian nationals in their 50s set up Zeuz Global and are listed in Companies House as living in Britain. The US Treasury sanctioned those behind the Colombian mercenary operation on 9 December. Zeuz Global moved its operations immediately after the sanctions.

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