The U.S. Treasury designated RSF Brig. Gen. El-Fatih Abdallah Idris Adam, better known by his notorious nickname “Abu Lulu,” North Darfur commander Maj. Gen. Gedo Hamdan Ahmed Mohamed (also known as “Abu Shok”), and field commander Tijani Ibrahim Moussa Mohamed (also known as “Al Zeir Salem”), citing their roles in siege operations and post-capture violence following the RSF takeover of the city on October 26, 2025.
Treasury said RSF forces carried out executions, torture, and sexual violence during and after the fall of the city.
The sanctions follow earlier designations imposed by the European Union and the United Kingdom, which also listed Abu Lulu, Gedo, and Tijani for their roles in atrocities linked to the El Fasher campaign. The coordinated measures across the United States, EU, and UK identify the same operational commanders involved in field-level operations during the siege and capture.
The sanctions come amid a war that has killed more than 150,000 people and displaced over 14 million across Sudan since April 2023, making it one of the largest displacement crises globally.
The U.S. designation comes just hours after a UN Independent International Fact-Finding Mission reported that RSF operations during the siege and capture of El Fasher bore the “hallmarks of genocide,” citing ethnically targeted killings, sexual violence, enforced disappearances, and starvation tactics directed primarily against the non-Arab Zaghawa and Fur communities.
The mission said the 18-month siege deliberately deprived civilians of food, water, medical care, and humanitarian assistance, weakening the population through starvation and confinement before the October 2025 takeover.
Investigators concluded that the scale, coordination, and public endorsement of the operation by RSF leadership demonstrated that the killings and abuses were part of a planned and organized campaign, with genocidal intent described as the “only reasonable inference” based on the pattern of executions, ethnic targeting, and deliberate destruction of civilian life conditions.
“The Mission concludes that the violence committed by the Rapid Support Forces in and around El-Fasher forms part of a coherent, widespread, and escalating course of conduct directed, in particular, against the Zaghawa and the Fur, in the context of a prolonged siege followed by a takeover marked by brutal atrocities.”
“The evidence establishes a widespread and systematic pattern by the Rapid Support Forces of killings, ethnically targeted rape and other forms of sexual and gender-based violence, arbitrary detention, torture and cruel treatment, enforced disappearances, extortion, and forced displacement, combined with the deliberate imposition of conditions of life incompatible with survival, including starvation and the destruction of medical care. These acts were committed with knowledge, organisation, and repetition, and were accompanied by dehumanising and exterminatory language.”
“Taken together, the scale, severity, and cumulative impact of the acts by the Rapid Support Forces, assessed in light of patterns of targeting, conduct, and inferred intent, present indications pointing to genocide in and around El-Fasher,” the experts said.
