On Thursday 29 January, the Council of the EU adopted sanctions against seven military leaders in response to the escalation of violence in Sudan. “These measures alone will not put an end to the war, but they will increase the cost for those responsible”, stressed EU High Representative Kaja Kallas at the end of the Foreign Affairs Council.
Five people have been sanctioned in the Rapid Support Forces (RSF): Commander Algoney Hamdan Dagalo Musa, Brigadier Generals Elfateh Abdullah Idris Adam and Gedo Hamdan, and Operations Commanders Edris Kafuti and Tijani Ibrahim Moussa Mohamed. According to the Council, these four were among the main perpetrators of the atrocities committed by the FSR in El Fasher in October 2025.
Abu Zaid Talha Al-Misbah, commander of the Baraa bin Malik battalion, an Islamist militia fighting alongside the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), and Al-Tayyib Al-Imam Joda, the emir of the Nafeidiya clan of the Kawahla tribe, one of the community leaders who helped the SAF in a campaign during which arrests and mass killings are said to have taken place, are also subject to measures.
See the legal act: https://aeur.eu/f/kh1 (Original version in French by Camille-Cerise Gessant)