Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government what representations they intend to make to the government of the United States regarding its decision to declare that the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and allied militias have committed genocide in Sudan; and to sanction RSF leader Mohammad Hamdan Daglo for his role in systematic atrocities committed against the Sudanese people.

The UK continues to work closely with the US in support of efforts to bring peace to Sudan. The long-standing position of successive UK Governments is that it is for courts to decide whether genocide has occurred. While the UK takes a different approach to the US on determination, no-one should doubt that we also condemn what is happening in the strongest terms.  Irrespective of any such determination, it is clear that atrocities have been committed in this conflict.  Those responsible must be held to account. We are using the tools available to us to act, including in partnership with the US.  We keep sanctions under review but do not speculate on prospective sanctions designations as this would undermine their effectiveness.

Since the outbreak of conflict in 2023, the UK has frozen the assets of nine commercial entities linked to the parties involved in the conflict. On 8 November 2024, the United Nations Security Council also sanctioned two Rapid Support Forces commanders involved in perpetrating ethnically motivated atrocities in Sudan.