The European Union has adopted restrictive measures against six individuals responsible for activities undermining the stability and political transition of Sudan, where ongoing fighting persists between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and their affiliated militias.
On the RSF side, the new sanctions list includes Abdulrahman Juma Barakallah, a General commanding the RSF in West Darfur. He is accused of committing atrocities, instigating ethnically motivated killings, targeting human rights activists and defenders, engaging in conflict-related sexual violence, and looting and burning communities. The sanctions also target the RSF’s financial adviser and a prominent tribal leader of the Mahamid clan affiliated with the RSF in West Darfur.
On the SAF side, sanctions have been imposed on the Director General of the Defense Industry System (DIS), a company already sanctioned by the EU, and El Tahir Mohamed El Awad El Amin, the Commander of the Sudanese Air Force, for their role in the indiscriminate aerial bombing of densely populated residential areas since the conflict began. Ali Ahmed Karti Mohamed, a former Sudanese Minister of Foreign Affairs under the government of Omar al-Bashir, is also listed.
Those targeted are subject to an asset freeze and a prohibition on the provision of funds or economic resources to them, directly or indirectly. Additionally, they are subject to travel bans within the European Union.
