UN Security Council sanctions two generals from Sudan’s paramilitary RSF
Al Jazeera
Paramilitary group’s head of operations and West Darfur commander have been slapped with travel bans and asset freezes.
A United Nations Security Council committee has sanctioned two generals from Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) for destabilising the country through violence and human rights abuses.
These are the first UN sanctions in the current war in Sudan, which erupted on April 15, 2023, as a result of a power struggle between the RSF led by Mohamed Hamdan “Hemedti” Dagalo and Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan.
The UNSC’s Sudan sanctions committee on Friday agreed to a United States proposal made at the end of August to impose an international travel ban and asset freeze on the RSF’s head of operations, Osman Mohamed Hamid Mohamed, and West Darfur commander Abdel Rahman Juma Barkalla.
Diplomats said the move was delayed by Russia, because it wanted more time to study the proposal, according to the Reuters news agency. The committee operates by consensus.
In May, the US Treasury Department imposed sanctions on Mohamed and the group’s Central Darfur commander, Ali Yagoub Gibril.
