{"id":249380,"date":"2026-11-08T06:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-11-08T04:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-sanctions-against-commanders-implicated-in-sudan-rapes-seek-accountability-says-uk-minister\/"},"modified":"2026-11-08T06:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-11-08T04:30:09","slug":"sudan-sanctions-against-commanders-implicated-in-sudan-rapes-seek-accountability-says-uk-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-sanctions-against-commanders-implicated-in-sudan-rapes-seek-accountability-says-uk-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: Sanctions Against Commanders Implicated in Sudan Rapes &#8216;Seek Accountability&#8217;, Says UK Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">Geneva \u2014 UK Development Minister Kirsty McNeill says that sanctions her government has announced against military commanders suspected of atrocities, including conflict-related sexual violence, during the fall of El Fasher in western Sudan are aimed at seeking accountability.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"44\">McNeill spoke to journalists at a Nov. 4 press conference in Geneva, where she said that one year after the fall of El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur State, the UK had last week brought forward a new package of action&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202611050230.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow 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>Geneva \u2014 UK Development Minister Kirsty McNeill says that sanctions her government has announced against military commanders suspected of atrocities, including conflict-related sexual violence, during the fall of El Fasher in western Sudan are aimed at seeking accountability. McNeill spoke to journalists at a Nov. 4 press conference in Geneva, where she said that one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":249381,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00591099:740408c297d3a738bba52245c709b27f:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[13948,258,256,12431,19405,5941,257,12172,4650,7745,254,4708,1613],"class_list":["post-249380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-accountability","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-commanders","tag-implicated","tag-minister","tag-news","tag-rapes","tag-sanctions","tag-seek","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00591099:740408c297d3a738bba52245c709b27f:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249380","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=249380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}