US determines Sudan's RSF committed genocide, imposes sanctions on leader
The United States determined on Tuesday that members of Sudan's Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and allied militias committed genocide in Sudan and imposed sanctions on the group's leader over a conflict that has killed tens of thousands of people and driven millions from their homes.
US sanctions Sudan's Hemedti, declares RSF committed genocide
The Rapid Support Forces’ violent repression in Sudan’s Darfur region amounts to genocide, Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced Tuesday as the Biden administration unveiled sanctions on the paramilitary group’s leader,
U.S. declares genocide in Sudan, imposes sanctions on paramilitary leader
Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces has used systematic murder and sexual violence in its war in Sudan, the U.S. government says as it sanctions RSF’s chief, Hemedti.
US accuses RSF of Sudan genocide and sanctions its leader
Allies of RSF leader Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo accused the US of double standards The US has accused the Sudanese paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) of committing genocide and imposed sanctions on its leader.
U.S. declares Sudan's paramilitary and proxy forces are committing genocide
The United States has accused Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces and proxy militias of committing genocide in the Northeast African nation's nearly 2-year-old civil war.
Sudanese paramilitary group committed genocide, U.S. says
The Treasury Department backed the determination of genocide with a raft of sanctions targeting the RSF’s leader, Gen. Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo.
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