Sudanese Prime Minister Kamil Idris on Thursday urged the international community and the United Nations to label the Rapid Support Forces, or RSF, a “terrorist militia.”
Speaking at the 80th session of the U.N. General Assembly in New York, Idris called for an immediate halt to the flow of weapons and mercenaries into Sudan.
He said the “Sudanese people have faced existential threats and dangers because of the RSF, which has adopted a policy of terrorizing civilians.”
Idris said his country is witnessing “enormous challenges and risks shaking the U.N. Charter and multilateralism, threatening regional and international stability, while the foundations of international law are eroding, and crimes of genocide, aggression, and the use of foreign mercenaries to occupy states’ territories and massacre their peoples are escalating.”
Since April 2023, Sudan’s army and the RSF have been locked in a civil war that has left thousands dead and displaced millions.
