On January 7th Antony Blinken, America’s secretary of state, said that the Rapid Support Forces ( RSF ), a brutal paramilitary force fighting the SAF for control of Sudan, had committed genocide in the western region of Darfur.

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.

Famine rages, more than 11 million people have been forced from their homes, 30 million people need humanitarian assistance and tens of thousands are dead in the current Sudan conflict