He said dozens of foreign mercenaries were at the base, described as Colombians by the RSF fighters there. They told RSF fighters to bind the children to the weapons so they couldn’t escape, he said. The Colombian government said it has no official information confirming allegations that Colombians recruited or trained child soldiers in Sudan. Child recruitment is a war crimeTens of thousands of children as young as 8 have been recruited during Sudan’s war, according to Abdelgadir Abdullah Abu, secretary-general of Sudan’s National Council for Child Welfare, a government body. RSF fighters shot at him as punishment, wounding his foot.