Hommam Al Nassim 
On Thursday, the US Treasury Department website announced the imposition of new sanctions related to Sudan.
On May 15, the US Treasury Department said in a statement that it had imposed sanctions on two senior commanders in the Sudanese paramilitary Rapid Support Forces following attacks in North Darfur.
The statement added that the two commanders subject to sanctions are Major General Othman Mohammed Hamid Mohammed, head of operations of the Rapid Support Forces, and Ali Yaqoub Jibril, commander of the forces in Central Darfur.
Sudan is witnessing massacres against civilians more than a year into the war between the army and the Rapid Support Forces, in addition to warnings about an imminent famine.
On Wednesday, the Sudanese Sovereignty Council accused the Rapid Support Forces of launching an attack on a village in Al-Jazeera state, south of the capital, Khartoum, which was described as a “massacre” that caused “at least 100 deaths,” while the Rapid Support militias accused the army of “mobilizing large forces” in the village. .
The Civil Resistance Committees (a human rights group in the state of Al-Jazira) stated that the village of Wad Al-Noura witnessed a “massacre” after “the Rapid Support attacked it twice, and up to 100 people were killed.”
There is conflicting information about the number of victims of the Wad Noura events, in light of the interruption of communications and Internet services in the region, with activists talking about the killing of at least 200 civilians.
The Sudanese Sovereignty Council said in a statement, on Wednesday, that “the Rapid Support militia committed a heinous massacre against unarmed civilians in Wad Al-Noura, Al-Jazeera State, in which a large number of innocent citizens were killed.”
The Council called on the international community and human rights organizations to “condemn and denounce Rapid Support crimes and hold their perpetrators accountable, in implementation of the principle of no impunity.”
For its part, the Rapid Support Forces said in a statement, on Wednesday, that the army “mobilized large forces” in the three largest camps west of the city of Al-Manaqil, in the village of “Wad Al-Noura” for the purpose of attacking it in Jabal Awlia in the capital, Khartoum.
It indicated that it “attacked the camps, which include members of the army, the General Intelligence Service, and the Zubair bin Al-Awam Brigade affiliated with the Islamists and Mustafarin, in the west, south, and north of the Wad Al-Noura area.”
For its part, the National Umma Party condemned in a statement on Wednesday what it considered the ongoing “violations” of the Rapid Support Forces against citizens in the villages of Al-Jazira State, describing the attack on Wad Al-Noura as “violent.”
The Sudanese Congress Party said, “The Rapid Support attack on the village of Wad Al Noura resulted in a real massacre and a crime that claimed the lives of dozens of women and civilians, their numbers exceeding one hundred, and large numbers of casualties.”
He pointed out that “the attacking force carried out extensive robbery and plundering of the people’s property and cars,” declaring his condemnation of what he described as a “heinous crime.”
International estimates indicate that the war that broke out between the army and the Rapid Support Forces on April 15, 2023, led to the deaths of thousands, including more than 15,000 in the city of El Geneina, the capital of West Darfur state.
The war caused more than 9 million people to flee their homes to other Sudanese cities outside the battlefield, while thousands of them arrived in a number of neighboring countries, such as Chad, Egypt, Ethiopia, and South Sudan.
Nearly 18 million people across Sudan, which has a population of 48 million, suffer from “acute hunger,” and more than 5 million people face emergency levels of hunger in the areas most affected by the conflict.
While about 3.6 million children under the age of five suffer from acute malnutrition, according to the World Food Program in Sudan.
Emergency levels of hunger mean that families are suffering from a severe increase in acute malnutrition or are at risk of death or can only cope through emergency measures or liquidation of assets.
Last February, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization said it had received reports of “people dying due to hunger in Sudan,” as fighting hampers the distribution of aid and food supplies to the hungriest people.
International warnings of escalating violence in Sudan…Humanitarian organizations are calling for urgent intervention