The European Council (EC) has imposed sanctions on six companies for their alleged involvement in financing and arming the warring Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
The six entities were responsible for “supporting activities undermining the stability and political transition of Sudan,” the EC said in a statement on Monday. Among the companies sanctioned were three controlled by the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), including the Defense Industries System conglomerate, which Brussels said had estimated revenues of $2 billion in 2020.
The Sudanese army and the RSF have been fighting since mid-April in a war that has killed more than 12,000 people and which the United Nations says has displaced 7.5 million. Both the army and the RSF have been accused of war crimes, including the indiscriminate shelling of residential areas, torture, and arbitrary detention of civilians.
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