EU warns it is ready to impose more Sudan sanctions to stop escalation in fighting 

The EU has warned that it ‘stands ready to consider additional sanctions, including against those in positions of leadership’ who are involved in the escalating violence in El Fasher, the latest front in a war that began in April 2023.

‘The European Union condemns in the strongest possible terms the dramatic escalation of fighting in El Fasher in southwestern Sudan, instigated by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) against the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF),’ said a statement by the EU’s High Representative, Josep Borrell, 22 September.

The EU called upon RSF leader Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo and SAF leader Abdel Fattah al-Burhan to come to the negotiating table and seek a peaceful resolution to the conflict.

It warned: ‘The EU will not bear witness to another genocide and will continue to work with international accountability mechanisms to hold perpetrators to account for the gross human rights violations they have committed and continue to commit.’

https://www.eeas.europa.eu/eeas/sudan-statement-high-representative-situation-el-fasher_en