The United States sanctioned a senior leader of Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) for “leading efforts” to supply weapons for the 17-month-long war, which has killed more than 20,000 people and wrecked the northeastern African country.
Algoney Hamdan Daglo Musa controls the UAE-based Tradive General Trading LLC, a front company that imported vehicles to Sudan on behalf of the paramilitary RSF and retrofitted them with machine guns, the U.S. Department of Treasury said Tuesday. Algoney is the brother of RSF commander Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo.
War between the Sudanese military and the RSF broke out in April 2023 in the capital, Khartoum, and has spread across the country.
The treasury department said that Algoney’s actions have directly contributed to RSF’s ongoing siege of El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur state.
More than 13 million people have been forced to flee their homes. The war has been marked by atrocities including mass rape and ethnically motivated killings that amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity, according to the UN and international rights groups.
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