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More than 400 foreign Sudanese soldiers arrived in Yemen’s port city of Aden on Monday to join Saudi Arabia’s military aggression on Yemen. 

Some 400 Sudanese soldiers landed in Aden as part of the Saudi-led coalition, according to a Yemeni commander loyal to fugitive former Yemeni president, Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi. 

The soldiers will join 500 other Sudanese troops who landed in Aden on October 19, part of whom were deployed across the southern city of Aden and the strategic al-Anad airbase in adjacent Lahj Province, the source said.

Reports say more foreign forces are joining the Saudi aggression against Yemen. On September 9, Reuters reported that as many as 800 Egyptian soldiers had arrived in Yemen to aid the Saudi army in its assaults against Yemen.

On March 26, Saudi Arabia and some of its Arab allies, including the UAE, Kuwait, Qatar and Bahrain, began to launch the attacks in Yemen in an attempt to restore power to Hadi, a close ally of Saudi Arabia.