US lawmakers want response after Sudan 'horrors' by paramilitaries

Republican and Democratic U.S. senators called for a strong response from President Donald Trump's administration after the paramilitary Rapid Support

Forces seized new territory in Sudan, reportedly attacking civilians.



Republican Senator Jim Risch of Idaho, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, called for the U.S. to officially designate the RSF as a foreign terrorist organization.



"The horrors in Darfur’s El-Fasher were no accident — they were the RSF's plan all along. The RSF has waged terror and committed unspeakable atrocities, genocide among them, against the Sudanese people," he said in a statement on X on Tuesday.



On Wednesday, Senator Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire, the committee's top Democrat, said she most likely would back such a response from Washington. Asked whether she would back an FTO designation, Shaheen told reporters, "Probably," but added she would like to take a longer look at the issue.