The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control imposed sanctions on eight individuals and entities linked to procurement and recruitment networks that the agency said continue to fuel Sudan’s civil war between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces.
Treasury said the networks have enabled both sides to expand the scale and intensity of the conflict, deepening what it called one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises and further destabilizing the region. The agency said the ongoing violence has also created conditions allowing terrorist groups to grow, posing a threat to U.S. security interests.
“The Trump Administration is committed to advancing a lasting peace in Sudan and bringing an end to the conflict,” said Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. “The networks profiting from the conflict in Sudan jeopardize the prospects for the humanitarian truce that the Sudanese people desperately need.”
The United States renewed its call for the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces to accept an immediate, unconditional three-month humanitarian truce, which Treasury said would allow more aid to reach civilians, protect the population, and create space for further negotiations toward a permanent ceasefire. The U.S. also again called on outside actors to halt all financial and military support to parties in the conflict.
The action, taken under Executive Order 14098, targeted entities tied to the Defense Industries System, described as Sudan’s largest defense enterprise and a key supplier to the Sudanese Armed Forces. Treasury said the system controls numerous subsidiaries, including the Giad Industrial Group, also known as Sudan Master Technology, through opaque corporate structures that have generated billions of dollars; both were sanctioned in 2023.
Among the entities designated, Target Multiactivities Company Ltd., a Sudan-based company Treasury said is controlled by the Defense Industries System through Giad, allegedly imported explosives into Sudan from Egyptian and Indian suppliers, including India-based SBL Energy Limited, which Treasury said has supplied more than 200 shipments of explosives-related material since 2024 that were later used in bombs deployed by Sudanese forces. Treasury designated SBL’s chief executive, Indian national Alok Choudhari, along with Tariq Hussain Muhammad Madani, identified as a senior officer overseeing the Target Multiactivities Company. Ports Engineering Company Ltd., a Sudanese state-owned construction firm, was also designated for allegedly importing intelligence-personnel uniforms from an Emirati company and ammunition belts and weapons cases from a Turkish company since the war began in April 2023.
Separately, Treasury detailed earlier sanctions actions from December 2025 and April 2026 against a transnational recruitment network led by retired Colombian military officer Alvaro Andres Quijano Becerra and his wife, Claudia Viviana Oliveros Forero, who Treasury said have recruited former Colombian military personnel to fight in Sudan for the Rapid Support Forces, a group the State Department has determined committed genocide. The network operated through Colombia-based companies and a Panama-based firm, Talent Bridge S.A., which Treasury said was used to obscure the recruiters’ legal exposure. Treasury designated three individuals tied to Talent Bridge’s corporate leadership: Panamanian nationals Enrique Daniel Palacios Quintanilla and Jack Peter Derman Guzman, and Colombian national Fredy Alejandro Lopez Ocampo.
Under the sanctions, all property and interests of the designated individuals and entities within U.S. jurisdiction are blocked, and U.S. persons are generally barred from transactions involving them. Treasury said the investigation was carried out in partnership with U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s National Targeting Center.
By: Montana Newsroom wire