OFAC sanctions Sudan RSF weapons supplier
The US Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (‘OFAC’) has, 8 October, sanctioned Algoney Hamdan Daglo Musa(‘Algoney’) under Executive Order (EO) 14098, for ‘leading efforts to supply weapons to continue the war in Sudan’.
OFAC said, ‘The war between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has caused immense devastation, leaving tens of thousands dead, more than 11 million displaced, and millions facing emergency levels of hunger.
‘Algoney is the procurement director of the RSF and a brother of Mohammed Hamdan Daglo (Hemedti), the leader of the RSF. Algoney has extended this war by leading RSF efforts to procure weapons and military materiel. By arming the RSF, his actions have directly contributed to the RSF’s ongoing siege of El Fasher in North Darfur, a city of nearly two million vulnerable civilians, and the RSF’s operations elsewhere in Sudan.’
Acting Under Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence Bradley T Smith said that while the United States, United Nations, African Union and others are ‘advocating for peace’, there are individuals on both sides of the conflict ‘who continue to procure weapons to facilitate attacks and other atrocities against their own citizens’ – but that ‘The United States will continue to hold accountable those who seek to prolong this conflict and restrict access to vital humanitarian assistance at a time of famine and fragility.’
