Sudan captures weapons-laden boat from Yemen

September 25, 2022 (KHARTOUM) – Sudanese Navy intercepted a boat inside its territorial waters of the Red Sea smuggling weapons and ammunition from Yemen.

“On September 24, members of the Navy managed to seize a boat and four Yemenis on board inside the territorial waters near the Sabbat Islands,” read a statement issued by the Sudanese army spokesman

The boat was loaded with 90 Kalashnikov rifles, 162 boxes of Grinov submachine guns and 182 boxes of various calibres of ammunition, 43 cartons of detonating cord, and 45 cartons of explosion-proof fuses, further said the Sudanese army

The short military statement did not provide further details about the identity of the Yemeni smugglers. If they are simply weapons traffickers or if the operation was politically motivated.

Somali authorities had seized boatloads of arms destined for al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabab or Islamic State militant groups. Also, weapon traders were seized in the Red Sea.

In the past, the Israeli army carried out several clandestine operations to destroy weaponry heading from Iran to Palestinian Hamas in the Gaza strip through the Sudanese coasts or eastern Sudan.

(ST)