This week, the United States accused the RSF militia in Sudan’s brutal civil conflict of committing genocide. It’s the second time in two decades that genocide has been declared in the northeast African nation,

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.

On January 7th Antony Blinken, America’s secretary of state, said that the Rapid Support Forces ( RSF ), a brutal paramilitary force fighting the SAF for control of Sudan, had committed genocide in the western region of Darfur.

Tens of thousands of people have been killed in months of fighting that has led to a famine.