{"id":188920,"date":"2025-01-18T04:24:42","date_gmt":"2025-01-18T02:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-u-s-sanctions-sudan-junta-leader-el-burhan\/"},"modified":"2025-01-18T04:24:42","modified_gmt":"2025-01-18T02:24:42","slug":"sudan-u-s-sanctions-sudan-junta-leader-el-burhan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-u-s-sanctions-sudan-junta-leader-el-burhan\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: U.S. Sanctions Sudan Junta Leader El Burhan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"53\">Washington D.C. \u2014 <em>The US Treasury Department&#8217;s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has imposed sanctions on Abdelfattah El Burhan, the commander-in-chief of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and chairperson of Sudan&#8217;s Transitional Sovereignty Council. This move follows the designation of Rapid Support Forces (RSF) commander Mohamed &#8216;Hemedti&#8217; Dagalo to the sanctions list on January 7.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"49\">In a <a href=\"https:\/\/home.treasury.gov\/news\/press-releases\/jy2789\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">press release<\/a> yesterday, the Treasury Department accused the SAF, under Burhan&#8217;s leadership, of deadly&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202501170474.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>Washington D.C. \u2014 The US Treasury Department&#8217;s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has imposed sanctions on Abdelfattah El Burhan, the commander-in-chief of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and chairperson of Sudan&#8217;s Transitional Sovereignty Council. This move follows the designation of Rapid Support Forces (RSF) commander Mohamed &#8216;Hemedti&#8217; Dagalo to the sanctions list on January [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":188921,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[258,256,28992,28579,7079,257,4650,254,4708,1613,2282],"class_list":["post-188920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-burhan","tag-junta","tag-leader","tag-news","tag-sanctions","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-u-s"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188920","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=188920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}