HUNDREDS of Colombian ex-soldiers were drawn to Sudan with the promise of lucrative Emirati salaries.
What many found instead was death in a faraway war marked by mass killing, rape, famine and child recruitment.
An investigation reveals how Colombian mercenaries ended up in Darfur through a network stretching from the Andes to Sudan, combining WhatsApp recruitment, corporate arrangements and covert travel through Libya and Somalia.
Initially recruited via WhatsApp, recruits were flown to the UAE for brief training before being deployed to Sudan via at least two routes: through UAE-loyalist eastern Libya or a stopover at a Bosaso airbase in Somalia,
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