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Britain has sanctioned four senior figures of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), including the deputy leader of the paramilitary group, for the atrocities they committed in Sudan’s El-Fasher, according to an official statement on Friday, Anadolu reports. The sanctions came in response to the RSF’s atrocities, including “heinous violence, including mass killings, systematic sexual violence and deliberate attacks on civilians,” the Foreign Office said in a statement. Those targeted include RSF deputy leader Abdul Rahim Hamdan Dagalo, who is also the brother of the group’s leader Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo (Hemedti), as well as three others — Gedo Hamdan Ahmed, RSF commander for North Darfur, another commander Al-Fateh Abdullah Idris, and Tijani Ibrahim Moussa Mohamed, the group’s field commander. In the […]
