{"id":55164,"date":"2025-10-02T20:32:52","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T17:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=55164"},"modified":"2025-10-02T20:32:52","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T17:32:52","slug":"international-campaign-urges-u-s-congress-to-designate-sudans-rsf-as-a-terrorist-organization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/02\/international-campaign-urges-u-s-congress-to-designate-sudans-rsf-as-a-terrorist-organization\/","title":{"rendered":"International Campaign Urges U.S. Congress to Designate Sudan\u2019s RSF as a Terrorist Organization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Washington \u2013 October 2, 2025<\/strong><br \/>\nCalls are mounting among political and human rights circles in the United States and abroad for Congress to designate Sudan\u2019s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) as a \u201cForeign Terrorist Organization,\u201d amid growing accusations of genocide and war crimes against civilians.<\/p>\n<p>The initiative comes after Senator Jim Risch introduced an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) requiring the U.S. administration to take formal action to blacklist the militia. Launched through the Action Network platform, the campaign enables American citizens and Sudan\u2019s allies to sign a petition urging lawmakers to support the amendment.<\/p>\n<p>According to the campaign, the RSF is \u201cnot a legitimate political or military actor but an armed gang implicated in mass killings, rapes, looting, and the displacement of millions of civilians.\u201d The petition stresses that classifying the RSF as a terrorist organization is \u201ca vital step to cut off its financial, military, and political lifelines.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Human rights groups and Sudanese diaspora activists in the U.S. warn that any delay in action means \u201cmore killings, more famine, and more suffering for innocent Sudanese civilians,\u201d urging members of Congress to assume their moral and legal responsibility in the face of crimes against humanity.<\/p>\n<p>The campaign comes as the international community continues to warn of a deepening humanitarian catastrophe in Sudan, with millions at risk of famine and siege\u2014particularly in the city of El Fasher, under relentless RSF assault for more than 500 days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington \u2013 October 2, 2025 Calls are mounting among political and human rights circles in the United States and abroad for Congress to designate Sudan\u2019s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) as a \u201cForeign Terrorist Organization,\u201d amid growing accusations of genocide and war crimes against civilians. The initiative comes after Senator Jim Risch introduced an amendment to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20530,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55165,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55164\/revisions\/55165"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}