WASHINGTON — The Rapid Support Forces’ violent repression in Sudan’s Darfur region amounts to genocide, Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced Tuesday as the Biden administration unveiled sanctions on the paramilitary group’s leader, Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo.
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