The U.S. imposed sanctions on the leader of Sudan's military Thursday, saying he was blocking humanitarian aid and bombing hospitals, schools and markets in a war against an armed rival that has created a widening famine and the world's largest displacement crisis.
The sanctions that the Treasury Department announced against Sudanese Armed Forces leader Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, and separate sanctions announced Thursday over North Korea's alleged forced labor for profit abroad, were among the last efforts by the outgoing Biden administration to use financial penalties to shape the behavior of foreign actors.
The newly announced penalties follow U.S. sanctions imposed this month on Mohammad Hamdan Daglo Mousa, head of Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces and Burhan's adversary in a nearly 2-year-old war.
