The United States slapped sanctions on top officials of Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) for a range of alleged murders and rights abuses, including the killing of the governor of West Darfur.
The US Treasury sanctioned RSF senior commander Abdelrahim Hamdan Daglo and the brother of Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, leader of the paramilitary RSF.
The US State Department, meanwhile, placed RSF general and West Darfur sector commander Abdul Rahman Juma on its blacklist for what it called his involvement in a gross violation of human rights.
The sanctions came as the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces continued to fight for control of the country. Repeated efforts by outside groups have failed to produce a durable ceasefire between the two sides, led by rival generals.
Separately, while visiting Chad, US Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield announced $163 million in aid to help people affected by the civil war.
The State Department said more than 24.7 million people in Sudan need humanitarian assistance. Some 3.6 million people have been forced to flee their homes to other parts of Sudan to avoid the war. Another one million people have fled Sudan into neighbouring countries, the State Department said.
