Colombian Mercenaries Fighting For RSF In Sudan ‘Recruited’ By UK Based Company.

El Fasher; December 2025: Sanctioned individuals living in the United Kingdom have hired Colombian mercenaries to fight with the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group in Sudan, where they have been accused of genocide and other atrocities.

The hiring of such mercenaries have reportedly taken place from a North London flat linked to a transnational network of recruitment companies, according to UK Government Records, among them individuals from the South American country.

The flat is registered under Zeuz Global, a company set up by two individuals sanctioned earlier this month by the US Treasury for hiring Colombian mercenaries to fight with the RSF in Sudan’s bloody civil war. The two figures are described as UK residents on Companies House, the government register of firms operating in Britain. Zeuz Global, as per official information has immediately moved its operations to the UK capital after Washington imposed its sanctions on the Colombian individuals on 09th December.

The notion of US-sanctioned individuals setting up a company in the UK and hiring mercenaries from there to fight in Sudan has raised eyebrows among experts over the lack of serious vetting and checks undertaken by the UK when companies are set up, and the role of UK firms in global wars, flagging it a “major concern”.

The implicated individuals are thought to be Claudia Viviana Oliveros Forero and Mateo Andres Duque Botero, who registered Zeuz Global in April under a different name – ODP8 – with a capital of ₤10,000 ($13,378).

Oliveros is the owner and manager of the Bogota-based International Services Agency (A4SI), a recruiting agency which has been significantly active in recruiting mercenaries, co-founded by her husband, Alvaro Andres Quijano Becerra. Quijano is a dual Colombian-Italian national and a retired Colombian military officer based in the United Arab Emirates. He has played a central role in recruiting and deploying Colombian military personnel to Sudan, according to the US Treasury. Both Oliveros and Quijano have been sanctioned by the US.

Mateo Andres Duque, on the other hand, is a dual Colombian-Spanish national and the manager of  Maine Global Corp, an employment agency that manages and distributes funds for the company that hired the mercenaries.

Duque and Oliveros are named in Companies House records as owning “initial shareholdings”, with the latter named as a person of “significant control” within the company.

The involvement of Colombian mercenaries in Sudan emerged last year, following an investigation by Colombia’s Silla Vacia news website.

Such mercenaries, mostly former Colombian Armed Forces military personnel, have been involved in several massacres in El-Fasher, notably at the Zamzam refugee camp, and the subsequent violent takeover of the city. Between 300 and 400 mercenaries have been reportedly deployed over the course of the war.

The UAE has also been accused of recruiting and deploying former soldiers from the South American country, as part of its alleged involvement in the Sudan conflict. Additionally, Sudan has launched a genocide case against the UAE at the International Court of Justice, accusing the wealthy Gulf country of violating the Genocide Convention in Sudan. The UAE has also been accused of providing arms to the RSF. Meanwhile, Rapid Support Forces (RSF), headed by Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo, have been accused of committing mass human rights atrocities in the Sudan conflict, such as sexual abuse, genocide and ethnic cleansing, notably in El-Fasher and other major cities in the vast Darfur region.

Several individuals linked to the paramilitary group have been sanctioned by the UK and other Western nations for their involvement in such violence. The war, ongoing in Sudan since April 2023, was triggered following a power struggle between Dagalo and the head of the Sudanese army, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan. Thousands have been killed in Sudan since, with 14 million displaced amid what’s been labelled as the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.

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