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This week, the Trump Administration announced sanctions against Colombians involved in hiring out mercenaries to the Rapid Support Forces, a paramilitary group fueling Sudan’s civil war that the US says is involved in genocide. But this isn’t the first time Colombian soldiers for hire have cropped up in a conflict zone. The World’s Host Carolyn Beeler learned more from Elizabeth Dickinson, deputy director for Latin America with the Crisis Group, who’s based in Bogotá.