The United States has imposed sanctions on the deputy leaders of Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces Wednesday for alleged murders and rights abuses.
The US Treasury sanctioned RSF senior commander Abdelrahim Hamdan Daglo and the brother of Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, leader of the paramilitary RSF.
Under Abdelrahim Daglo, the Treasury said, RSF members “have engaged in acts of violence and human rights abuses, including the massacre of civilians, ethnic killings, and use of sexual violence.”
It said that many of the abuses took place in the Darfur region of Sudan.
Dagalo is the first top official on either side to be slapped with international sanctions since the start of the conflict.
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…
