Biden administration sounds alarm about Sudan genocide
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FILE - Rapid Support Forces leader Mohammad Hamdan Daglo Mousa salutes during a rally in Galawee, Sudan, June 15, 2019. Daglo, of Darfur, is widely known as Hemedti and on Jan. 7, 2024, was placed under U.S. sanctions.
The White House described Sudan’s civil war as a genocide Wednesday, a day after Washington placed sanctions on the nation’s rebel leader for his forces’ “horrific, systematic atrocities” in a conflict that has gripped the nation for more than two years, killing tens of thousands of people and driving millions from their homes.
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Palestinians ride a donkey-drawn cart as others walk past the rubble of houses, destroyed in previous Israeli strikes, amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip FILE - Israeli rescuers and security forces work at the site of an attack near the village of al-Funduq, in the occupied West Bank, on Jan. 6, 2025.
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FILE - China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi delivers a speech at the ministerial conference of the 2024 Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) in Beijing, Sept. 3, 2024. FILE - Republic of the Congo President Denis Sassou Nguesso and Chinese President Xi Jinping shake hands at the opening ceremony of the ninth Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) Summit, in Beijing, China, Sept. 5, 2024.