{"id":224522,"date":"2026-02-20T12:59:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T10:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-us-department-of-treasury-imposes-sanctions-on-militia-leaders-over-atrocities-in-el-fashir\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T12:59:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T10:59:09","slug":"sudan-us-department-of-treasury-imposes-sanctions-on-militia-leaders-over-atrocities-in-el-fashir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-us-department-of-treasury-imposes-sanctions-on-militia-leaders-over-atrocities-in-el-fashir\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: US Department of Treasury Imposes Sanctions On Militia Leaders Over Atrocities in El-Fashir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">Washington \u2014 The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of the United States Department of the Treasury on Thursday imposed sanctions on three commanders of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia for their actions in El-Fashir.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">In a statement, the Treasury Department said the individuals were involved in the RSF&#8217;s 18-month siege of El-Fashir, which culminated in its takeover and was marked by a campaign of ethnic killings, torture, starvation, and sexual violence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">Since the outbreak of war in&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602200108.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 \u2014 The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of the United States Department of the Treasury on Thursday imposed sanctions on three commanders of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia for their actions in El-Fashir. In a statement, the Treasury Department said the individuals were involved in the RSF&#8217;s 18-month siege of El-Fashir, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":224523,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[258,256,5815,8399,48508,17737,4381,460,257,4650,254,4708,1613,13061],"class_list":["post-224522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-atrocities","tag-department","tag-elfashir","tag-imposes","tag-leaders","tag-militia","tag-news","tag-sanctions","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-treasury"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/224522","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=224522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}