{"id":188229,"date":"2025-01-09T02:30:22","date_gmt":"2025-01-09T00:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-u-s-sanctions-sudans-rsf-leader-over-genocide-claims-but-critics-say-its-not-enough\/"},"modified":"2025-01-09T02:30:22","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T00:30:22","slug":"sudan-u-s-sanctions-sudans-rsf-leader-over-genocide-claims-but-critics-say-its-not-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-u-s-sanctions-sudans-rsf-leader-over-genocide-claims-but-critics-say-its-not-enough\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: U.S. Sanctions Sudan&#8217;s RSF Leader Over Genocide Claims but Critics Say Its Not Enough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"49\"><em> The United States has determined that Sudan&#8217;s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have &#8220;committed genocide&#8221; in Sudan and has imposed sanctions on the paramilitary group&#8217;s leader. While conflict resolution NGOs have welcomed the decision, many organisations and analysts fear that the move may be &#8216;too little, too late.&#8217; <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">The announcement was made on Tuesday and deals a setback to the RSF&#8217;s efforts to improve its image and assert its legitimacy, including attempts to establish a civilian government.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">The&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202501080380.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Sudan\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/sudan\/\">Sudan<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States has determined that Sudan&#8217;s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have &#8220;committed genocide&#8221; in Sudan and has imposed sanctions on the paramilitary group&#8217;s leader. While conflict resolution NGOs have welcomed the decision, many organisations and analysts fear that the move may be &#8216;too little, too late.&#8217; The announcement was made on Tuesday and deals [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":188230,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn01.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00530329:202b5570dd716a172732563d00307282:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[258,256,8117,8951,318,7079,257,2830,4650,254,4708,1613,8105,2282],"class_list":["post-188229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-claims","tag-critics","tag-genocide","tag-leader","tag-news","tag-rsf","tag-sanctions","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-sudans","tag-u-s"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn01.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00530329:202b5570dd716a172732563d00307282:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}