US says that Sudan used chemical weapons in the civil war

The US will impose new sanctions on Sudan after they had used chemical weapons in the current civil war against Rapid Support Forces (RSF) last year, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said.

The export from the US to the country will be limited and the financial loan boundaries have been introduced from 6 June, a statement from spokesperson Tammy Bruce.

Both the Sudanese army and the paramilitary group The RSF have previously been accused of war crimes during the conflict.

The BBC has contacted Sudan for a response to the latest actions of the US. Sudanese officials say that they do not yet have an explanation.

More than 150,000 people were killed during the conflict, which started two years ago when the army of Sudan and the RSF started a cruel power struggle.

In recent months, Sudan’s army has recaptured the capital of Khartoem, but fighting goes elsewhere.

No detail was given about which chemical weapons the US said, but the New York Times reported in January that Sudan used chlorine gas twice, which causes a series of painful and harmful effects and can be fatal.

“The United States calls on the government of Sudan to stop all the use of chemical weapons and to maintain its obligations under the CWC,” was the statement, referring to the Chemical Weapon Convention, including signatories, to destroy their stocks of the weapons.

Almost every country in the world -including Sudan -has agreed to the CWC, apart from Egypt, Noord -Korea and Zuid -Sudan according to the Arms Control Association, a non -party membership organization established in the US. Israel has signed the agreement but did not ratify his signature, which means that it has not legally confirmed its involvement in the Convention, the ACA adds.

“The United States continues to be fully committed to being responsible for those responsible for contributing to proliferation of chemical weapons,” Bruce added.

This is not the first time that the US has imposed sanctions in Sudan. In January they were published against leaders of both parties involved in the conflict.

Sudan’s military leader Abdel Fattah al-Curhan was Accused of “destabilizing Sudan and undermining the purpose of a democratic transition” By the US, who sentenced the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the country as “strange and disturbing”.

In the meantime, the head of the RSF Mohammed Hamdan was also known as Hemedti, was determined to have committed genocide In the country by former State Secretary Antony shine.

In the past two years, the parties have difficulty having power, moving around 12 million people and leaving 25 million who need food aid, more than double the population of London.

According to the AFP press office, new sanctions will have little effect on the country as a result of these earlier measures.

This last American move also gave rise to tensions about the involvement of the United Arab Emirates in the conflict. The VAE and Sudan had maintained diplomatic ties Until earlier this month When the Sudanese government claimed that the VAE gave weapons to the RSF, a statement that the VAE denies.

After the hot reception of US President Donald Trump in the Gulf State last week, Democrats tried to block the sale of the US weapons to the VAE congress, partly because of the alleged involvement in the conflict.

A Sudanese diplomatic source said Reuters that the US had imposed the new sanctions “to distract from the recent campaign in the congress against the VAE”.

Earlier this month, A TOP of the UN Rechtbank rejected Sudan’s bid To sue the VAE for genocide.