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The U.N. Safety Council has introduced sanctions on 4 Sudanese paramilitary commanders for atrocities dedicated within the October takeover of the Darfur metropolis of El-Fasher.
The 4 are high-ranking members of the Fast Assist Forces, which a U.N. probe final week decided had dedicated acts of genocide of their 18-month siege and eventual seize of El-Fasher.
They’re RSF deputy commanders Abdelrahim Hamdan Daglo and Gedo Hamdan Ahmed, Brigadier Common Al-Fateh Abdullah Idris and area commander Tijani Ibrahim.
Since April 2023, Sudan has been gripped by what the U.N. has known as a “warfare of atrocities” between the RSF and Sudan’s common military, killing tens of hundreds and creating the world’s largest starvation and displacement crises.
For a 12 months and a half, the RSF besieged North Darfur state capital El-Fasher —the area’s final main metropolis to evade their management — earlier than storming the town on October 26.
The marketing campaign, which the U.N. fact-finding mission described as “three days of horror”, was marked by abstract executions, systematic sexual violence and mass detention — primarily concentrating on the town’s ethnic Zaghawa inhabitants.
Mr. Abdelrahim, brother of RSF chief Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, seems in footage “giving direct orders to his fighters to not take captives however to kill everybody”, in accordance with the sanctions announcement.
He’s already sanctioned by the US, the UK, and the European Union. Idris, generally known as Abu Lulu, turned generally known as “the Butcher of El-Fasher” for graphic movies he himself posted of the takeover.
“Abu Lulu has filmed himself smiling and killing individuals whereas they begged for mercy, in addition to movies the place he makes ethnically focused executions,” the Safety Council stated.
He, Mr. Ahmed, and Mr. Ibrahim had been slapped with U.S. sanctions final week over their roles within the “ethnic killings, torture, hunger, and sexual violence” dedicated in El-Fasher.
A particular Safety Council committee with representatives of all 15 member international locations makes selections on such sanctions.
Following the Darfur warfare of the early 2000s, the place the RSF’s predecessor the Janjaweed dedicated comparable atrocities on the behest of the Khartoum authorities, the Safety Council in 2005 established a Sudan sanctions regime.
It contains an embargo on arms shipments to Darfur, in addition to sanctions on people akin to a freeze on belongings and ban on overseas journey.
Printed – February 25, 2026 03:48 pm IST