Complicit Dossier

Command, allied forces and mobilisation · SAF-aligned militia · Sudan

Eastern Orta (Eastern Battalion)

الأورطة الشرقية – بقيادة الأمين داود

  • Allied force or mobilisation network
  • Grade B: CorroboratedStrongest record: corroborated
  • 3 documented ties · 1 step from the SAF

Also recorded as: Eastern Cohort; Eastern Battalion; الأورطة الشرقية; UPFLJ; PUFLJ; Eastern Orta / Eastern Corps (Popular United Front for Liberation and Justice); Eastern Battalion (al-Orta al-Sharqiya) – commander Al-Amin Daoud

Led by Al-Amin Daoud (Juba Peace Agreement signatory). Deployed to Kassala 29 Oct 2024; assistant commander Humad Shiblalla told Sudan Tribune the move 'followed consultations with the Sudanese Armed Forces and that the militia's forces were now integrated into the army'. Daoud told Medameek (Jan 2025) that 'the state of Eritrea has taken on the training of their forces and supports them with weapons and supplies' and that 'Eritrea has provided us with oil, lentils, and rice'. STPT: the Orta 'fought alongside the Joint Forces supporting the SAF in Gezira State'.

Their response

  • Daoud 'denied that SAF supported his forces' while confirming Eritrean supply, and said Eritrean weapons 'could not be directed against Sudan'.

Records

2

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Grade B: Corroborated

Eastern Orta / Eastern Corps (Popular United Front for Liberation and Justice)

2023-2026

Led by Al-Amin Daoud (Juba Peace Agreement signatory). Deployed to Kassala 29 Oct 2024; assistant commander Humad Shiblalla told Sudan Tribune the move 'followed consultations with the Sudanese Armed Forces and that the militia's forces were now integrated into the army'. Daoud told Medameek (Jan 2025) that 'the state of Eritrea has taken on the training of their forces and supports them with weapons and supplies' and that 'Eritrea has provided us with oil, lentils, and rice'. STPT: the Orta 'fought alongside the Joint Forces supporting the SAF in Gezira State'.

Why this grade
B (own admission + Sudan Tribune + Dabanga + STPT)
Response
Daoud 'denied that SAF supported his forces' while confirming Eritrean supply, and said Eritrean weapons 'could not be directed against Sudan'.
Sanctions
None
  1. 1STPT, Regional and international dimensions of conflicts in eastern Sudan · sudantransparency.org · Aug 2025
  2. 2Sudan Tribune report reproduced by Martin Plaut, Eritrean trained militia deploys to eastern Sudan · martinplaut.com · 1 Nov 2024
  3. 3Radio Dabanga, 'Sudan-Eritrea military alliance risks igniting tribal conflict' · dabangasudan.org · 29 Nov 2024
  4. 4Medameek (Arabic), Commander of the Eastern Orta militia: our armament, training and supplies come from Eritrea (as cited in STPT Aug 2025, fn 33; not independently opened) · medameek.com · 5 Jan 2025
  5. 5EUAA COI Sudan Security Situation 2025, 2.6.1 East: actors involved · euaa.europa.eu · Feb 2025

NamesEritrea

Grade B: Corroborated

Eastern Battalion (al-Orta al-Sharqiya) – commander Al-Amin Daoud

Announced deployment in eastern Sudan in Oct 2024 after 'technical and military consultations' with SAF; one of four militias trained in Eritrea.

Source
Asharq Al-Awsat (Saudi-owned pan-Arab daily)
  1. 1Asharq Al-Awsat · aawsat.com · 29 Oct 2024

NamesEritrea

2 more records below grade A (corroborated, single-source or unverified). Change “Evidence shown” to see them.

Relationships

3

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Fighting forces · 3

3 more relationships below grade A (corroborated, single-source or unverified). Change “Evidence shown” to see them.

Geography

Tags come from the recorded jurisdiction and from place names in the records. Coordinates on the map are approximate.

Based in
Sudan
Also named
Eritrea (3)
Places
Kassala, Wad Madani / Gezira

Position in the network

Derived by analysing the documented relationships. Nothing in this section is a finding.

Connected to the SAF through official or corroborated records.

›Possible links to investigate · 1