US Senate pushes for designation of Sudan's RSF as terrorist group

Sudanese General Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, also known as Hemeti, commander of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitaries, looks on during a meeting with his supporters in the capital Khartoum on June 18, 2019. [AFP]

The US Senate Foreign Affairs Committee has called for the designation of Sudan’s rebel group Rapid Support Forces (RSF) as a terrorist group after reports of the killing of over 400 civilians during a hostile takeover of El-Fasher in the Darfur region emerged.

The committee’s chairperson Jim Risch, and other ranking members, said they were ‘horrified’ by the ‘genocide’ adding that it was time for the US government to reconsider its handling of the paramilitary group.