U.S. President Donald Trump’s executive order imposing sanctions on the International Criminal Court could jeopardize trials ...

Portsudan, January 21 (SUNA) - Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) said "in the face of the inability of the Janjaweed militia to confront the armed forces and the military support forces ...

Daglo, who is better known by his nickname, Hemedti, was a commander in the Janjaweed militia considered largely responsible for the brutal Darfur conflict, in which Sudanese Arab Janjaweed ...

Abdel-Fattah Burhan. The RSF are the heirs of the notorious Janjaweed militia, accused of genocide in Darfur 20 years ago. But unlike their predecessors, the militiamen have surged across the ...

Burhan sought to place the RSF — a paramilitary outfit with roots in the Janjaweed militias that had helped former strongman Omar al-Bashir put down rebels — under the regular army’s control within ...

The RSF can trace its origins to the Janjaweed militias, which former autocrat Omar al-Bashir heavily relied on to quell a 2003 uprising in Darfur. The RSF and the Sudanese army had shared power ...

The Janjaweed, from which the RSF was primarily formed, was previously accused of genocide by the U.S. during the long-running war against predominantly non-Arab rebels in Sudan's Darfur region.

He was referring to the brutal Darfur conflict, in which Sudanese Arab Janjaweed militias used scorched-earth tactics on the Fur, Masalit and Zaghawa people of western Sudan, killing at least 200,000.

The RSF, a descendant of the Janjaweed (which were also led by Mr Dagalo), launched a campaign of ethnic cleansing in West Darfur in the first months of the war in 2023. As many as 15,000 members ...

Tuesday's determination comes 21 years after the US declared that the Janjaweed militias were perpetrating genocide in Darfur. The RSF later grew out of these groups.

Back then, RSF leader Hemedti was heading up a lesser-known Janjaweed militia that was carrying out state-sanctioned atrocities against civilians. He was not held accountable then, and many wonder ...