Showing posts with label US Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Show all posts
Showing posts with label US Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Show all posts

Sunday, February 18, 2024

US Senators Recognize Genocide in Sudan's Darfur

 Four members (two Democrats and two Republicans) of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee introduced on 13 February 2024 a resolution recognizing the actions of the Rapid Support Forces and allied militias in the Darfur region of Sudan against non-Arab ethnic communities as acts of genocide.  

Sunday, October 16, 2022

Chairman of US Senate Foreign Relations Committee Calls for End of Ethiopian Conflict

 The Chairman of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Bob Menendez, issued a statement on 15 October 2022 on the conflict in northern Ethiopia.

The Chairman called on Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed "to order his Eritrean mercenaries out of Ethiopia and lift his cruel blockade of Tigray."  He also urged the Ethiopian government and the Tigray People's Liberation Front to commit to renewed peace talks without preconditions.