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U.S. Sanctions Colombian Recruitment Network Backing Sudan’s RSF

The move targets recruitment and payroll channels used to send former Colombian soldiers to the group, including alleged training of children.

A bronze seal for the Department of the Treasury is shown at the U.S. Treasury building in Washington, U.S., January 20, 2023. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/File Photo
FILE - Women displaced from El-Fasher stand in line to receive food aid at the newly established El-Afadh camp in Al Dabbah, in Sudan's Northern State, Nov. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Marwan Ali, File)
FILE - Sudanese soldiers from the Rapid Support Forces unit patrol during a rally for Dagalo, in Garawee town, north of Sudan, Saturday, June 15, 2019. (AP Photo)
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Overview

  • Treasury designated four individuals and four entities it says form a transnational network that supplied fighters to the Rapid Support Forces.
  • Officials say hundreds of former Colombian military personnel have served with the RSF since at least 2024 as infantry, artillery, drone pilots and instructors.
  • Those named include Alvaro Andres Quijano Becerra, a dual Colombian-Italian based in the United Arab Emirates, his wife, Mateo Andres Duque Botero, and several staffing firms accused of handling payroll.
  • Treasury says Colombian fighters supported the RSF’s Oct. 26 capture of El Fasher, where mass executions and rapes were reported by investigators and rights groups.
  • The U.S. has accused the RSF of genocide in Darfur as the ICC probes suspected war crimes, and Washington urged external actors to halt support for combatants, with the UAE denying accusations it armed the RSF.