Exclusive: The Ethiopian army base covertly supporting Sudan’s RSF

Exclusive: The Ethiopian army base covertly supporting Sudan’s RSF Submitted by Oscar Rickett on Wed, 04/08/2026 - 13:00 Satellite imagery collected since December reveals a base at Asosa, connected to UAE supply lines, facilitating the Rapid Support Forces The Ethiopian army base at Asosa providing support for Sudan's Rapid Support Forces, shown on 29 March 2026 (Imagery © 2026 Planet Labs/Analysis Yale HRL) Off Ethiopia is covertly supporting Sudan ’s Rapid Support Forces paramilitary from an army base in the country’s Benishangul-Gumuz region, Middle East Eye can reveal. Satellite imagery analysed by the Yale School of Public Health’s Humanitarian Research Lab and seen exclusively by MEE shows, over many months, a wide range of activity consistent with alleged military assistance to the RSF at an Ethiopian National Defence Force (ENDF) base on the outskirts of the western city of Asosa. From December to the end of March, as the RSF conducted intense cross-border attacks on Sudanese army positions in Sudan’s Blue Nile state, car transporters rolled in and out of the Asosa base carrying technical vehicles, while tents capable of holding up to 150 fighters appeared and supplies were dispersed.