Sudan’s UN envoy calls for designation of Rapid Support Forces as terrorist group, legal action over ‘genocide’
NEW YORK CITY: Sudan’s permanent representative to the UN called on the international community to put “immense pressure” on the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, open legal proceedings against the militia, and formally designate it a terrorist organization.
It comes as the group masses for a new offensive in its civil war against the Sudanese Armed Forces, and UN agencies warn that parts of the country could soon be engulfed by famine.
The world must “exert immense pressure on the RSF militia to dissuade them from attacking civilians using top-notch drones supplied by UAE,” the ambassador, Harith Idriss Alharith Mohammed, told Arab News.
“The UAE continues to target our people, supplying the militia with various types of weaponry and inciting neighboring countries to permit attacks launched from their territories.”
