US lawmakers want response after Sudan ‘horrors’ by paramilitaries

Republican and Democratic U.S. senators called for a strong response from President Donald Trump’s administration after the paramilitary Rapid Support
Forces seized new territory in Sudan, reportedly attacking civilians.
Republican Senator Jim Risch of Idaho, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, called for the U.S. to officially designate the RSF as a foreign terrorist organization.
“The horrors in Darfur’s El-Fasher were no accident — they were the RSF’s plan all along. The RSF has waged terror and committed unspeakable atrocities, genocide among them, against the Sudanese people,” he said in a statement on X on Tuesday.