Senators Seek Sanctions Strategy for War-Torn Sudan
The Biden administration should develop a comprehensive sanctions strategy targeting the leaders of Sudan’s warring parties and those that supply the belligerents with arms, the leaders of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said Dec. 19.
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Language calling for the sanctions strategy is included in a broader resolution that Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Md., and the committee’s top Republican, Jim Risch of Idaho, introduced to try to end Sudan’s 8-month-old civil war. The resolution urges U.S. allies and partners to join the sanctions push and calls on the administration to use existing sanctions authorities to designate more leaders of Rapid Support Forces and the Sudanese Armed Forces, the two fighting parties. The resolution also said the State Department should support "enhanced end use monitoring" of U.S. weapons and other defense articles to determine if those exports have been diverted to the RSF or SAF.
Reps. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, and Gregory Meeks, D-N.Y., the chairman and ranking member, respectively, of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, are expected to introduce a similar resolution when the House reconvenes.
President Joe Biden signed an executive order in May expanding the U.S. sanctions authority against Sudan (see 2305040037), The U.S. government issued its first set of Sudan sanctions the following month (see 2306010064).