UNSC to sanction 2 RSF leaders

UNSC committee is considering imposing sanctions on two leaders of the Sudanese Rapid Support Forces for threatening peace, security and stability in the country through means of violence and human rights violations.
If the propsed sanctions are passed, it will be the first UN sanctions imposed during the current war in Sudan that broke out in mid-April last year, over a power struggle between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces before a planned transition to civilian rule. Diplomats said that the United States officially proposed an international travel ban and an asset freeze on the Chief of Rapid Support Forces (Operations), Major General Othman Mohamed Hamed Mohamed, and the Commander of the Rapid Support Forces, West Darfur State Sector, Abdel Rahman Jumaa, The Sudan Sanctions Committee, which consists of 15 members of the Security Council, unanimously approves its resolutions.
If none of the members objected to the proposal, the imposition of sanctions on the two men will be approved. Members can also ask for more time to study, or obstruct the proposal. The war in Sudan led to waves of ethnic violence that were largely blamed on the Rapid Support Forces.
The Rapid Support Forces deny harm to civilians and attribute this activity to the rogue parties.
The United States says the warring parties have committed war crimes, and that the Rapid Support Forces and allied militias have also committed crimes against humanity and have been involved in ethnic cleansing.
The United Nations says that about 25 million people, half of the population of Sudan, need humanitarian aid, and that the famine is looming, and about 10 million people have been displaced.
More than 2.2 million people have moved from Sudan to other countries. The Security Council established a sanctions regime targeting Sudan in 2005 in an attempt to help end the conflict in Darfur.
The Council also imposed an arms embargo on Darfur in 2004.
The International Criminal Court is prosecuting former Sudanese leaders for genocide and crimes against humanity.