U.N. Security Council sanctions four Sudan commanders over El-Fasher atrocities

U.N. Security Council imposes sanctions on four Sudan commanders for genocide and atrocities in El-Fasher's 18-month siege.

The U.N. Security Council has announced sanctions on four Sudanese paramilitary commanders for atrocities committed in the October takeover of the Darfur city of El-Fasher.

The four are high-ranking members of the Rapid Support Forces, which a U.N. probe last week determined had committed acts of genocide in their 18-month siege and eventual capture of El-Fasher.

They are RSF deputy commanders Abdelrahim Hamdan Daglo and Gedo Hamdan Ahmed, Brigadier General Al-Fateh Abdullah Idris and field commander Tijani Ibrahim.

Since April 2023, Sudan has been gripped by what the U.N. has called a "war of atrocities" between the RSF and Sudan's regular army, killing tens of thousands and creating the world's largest hunger and displacement crises.

For a year and a half, the RSF besieged North Darfur state capital El-Fasher —the region's last major city to evade their control — before storming the city on October 26.

The campaign, which the U.N. fact-finding mission described as "three days of horror", was marked by summary executions, systematic sexual violence and mass detention — primarily targeting the city's ethnic Zaghawa population.