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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor

UK ‘should impose sanctions on human rights abusers in Sudan’ – report

Vicky Ford MP says the west has allowed impunity to become the norm in Sudan.
Vicky Ford MP says the west has allowed impunity to become the norm in Sudan. Photograph: Matt Crossick/Empics Entertainment

The UK should impose sanctions on human rights abusers in senior Sudanese military positions as well as designate the Wagner group operating in Sudan as a terrorist group, a report from the all-party group on Sudan has urged.

The group, including the Conservative former Africa minister Vicky Ford, said on Wednesday the west has allowed impunity to become the norm, and the failure to bring to justice many of those responsible for the genocide in Darfur 20 years ago has allowed the same militia to regroup and form part of the forces now blocking democracy in the country.

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