The Biden administration has determined that the rapid support forces rebel group in Sudan is committing genocide,

and the Treasury has announced new sanctions for the group's leader and affiliated companies.

It's the latest escalation for Sudan, which aid groups say is facing the worst humanitarian crisis in the world right now.

She can no longer hold her son, so Zaytona Yaqoub clings to the clothes he left behind.

I found his body stiffened. I carried him and ran to my neighbor, and I asked her to have a look at him.

She told me, your son is gone.

Seven and a half-year-old Zaki died of starvation.

His family, like millions, displaced by years of fighting in Sudan. Zetona is now among the masses

mourning a loved one in this war. Today, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken declared that a genocide

took place in Sudan, singling

out the paramilitary rapid support forces, or RSF, as fueling some of the worst violence.

In a statement, Blinken said the RSF and allied militias have systematically murdered men

and boys, even infants, on an ethnic basis, and deliberately targeted women and girls

from certain ethnic groups for rape and other forms of brutal sexual violence.

Blinken accused those same militias of targeting and murdering innocent people, escaping

conflict, and preventing civilians from accessing life-saving supplies.

Ahmad Mohammed helped to dig the graves and bury the dead near Khartoum.

Most of those people died because of disease and starvation.

RSF fighters deprived us of everything.

The U.S. Treasury Department levied sanctions on RSF leader Mohamed Hamdan, also known as Hamedi, plus

seven RSF-owned companies based in the United Arab Emirates. The RSF stems from the government-backed

junjahid militias, a largely Arab force that brutally crushed an uprising of non-Arabs in the 2000s,

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