Senator Ben Cardin posted on 19 April 2024 a press release titled "Cardin, Risch, Meeks, McCaul Request Determination of Human Rights Abuses Committed by Sudan's RSF."
U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Jim Risch (R-Idaho), Chair and Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, along with U.S. Representative Gregory Meeks (D-N.Y.) and Michael McCaul (R-Texas), Ranking Member and Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, asked the Biden administration to determine whether Sudan's Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and its leader, General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, should be subject to sanctions under the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act. They also asked for an examination of links between Russia's Wagner Group and the RSF.
