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.

A force fighting Sudan’s army in a brutal civil war committed massacres and rape that amount to genocide, the Secretary of State said, two decades after a finding of genocide in the same region.

Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have committed genocide over the course of the more than year-long civil war in Sudan, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Tuesday.

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.

Tens of thousands of people have been killed in months of fighting that has led to a famine.

The Biden administration on Tuesday sanctioned the top general of Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and determined the paramilitary group has committed genocide in the country, as well as crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing.

The Biden administration has sanctioned the RSF leader Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo as well as businesses owned by the group in the UAE.View on euronews

The Biden administration says it has determined Sudan’s Rapid Support Force rebel group and proxies are committing genocide in the country’s civil war

The United States will impose sanctions on Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, the leader of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, which has been locked in a devastating war with the Sudanese army for control of the country,

The Biden administration sanctioned the head of the Rapid Support Forces paramilitary group in Sudan, announcing the move at the same time that it determined the group was guilty of genocide.