WASHINGTON – The United States on Friday imposed sanctions on eight individuals and entities it said were linked to procurement and recruitment networks fueling Sudan’s war, targeting companies supplying the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and individuals accused of helping recruit former Colombian soldiers to fight alongside the Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
The sanctions come as Sudan’s conflict enters its fourth year after fighting erupted in April 2023, with international efforts continuing to push for a humanitarian truce and renewed negotiations amid what the United Nations has described as one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises.
The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) said the measures target five companies and individuals linked to a procurement network supporting the SAF, as well as three individuals who held senior positions at a Panamanian company allegedly used to recruit former Colombian military personnel for the RSF.
According to the Treasury Department, Sudan’s Defense Industries System (DIS), the country’s largest defense enterprise, continues to support the SAF’s arsenal of weapons, ammunition, vehicles and military equipment, some of which it said is sourced from Iran and other foreign backers. OFAC said the continued procurement of military equipment has enabled the SAF to sustain combat operations, carry out attacks against civilians and obstruct efforts to end hostilities and secure a ceasefire.
The sanctions include Target Multiactivities Company Ltd. (TMAC), its managing director Tariq Hussain Muhammad Madani, India’s SBL Energy Limited and its chief executive officer Alok Choudhari, as well as Sudan’s Ports Engineering Company LTD.
OFAC said TMAC imported explosives and related materials from Egyptian and Indian companies, including SBL Energy Limited, adding that the explosives were subsequently used in bombs deployed by the SAF. It said SBL had supplied TMAC with more than 200 shipments of explosives and related materiel since 2024.
The Treasury Department also said that since the conflict began in April 2023, Ports Engineering had imported uniforms and footwear for Sudanese intelligence personnel from a company in the United Arab Emirates, as well as ammunition belts and weapon containers from a Turkish company.
Separately, the United States sanctioned Panamanian nationals Enrique Daniel Palacios Quintanilla and Jack Peter Derman Guzman, and Colombian national Fredy Alejandro Lopez Ocampo, for serving in senior positions at Talent Bridge, S.A.
OFAC said Talent Bridge, S.A., formerly known as Global Staffing S.A., was used to conceal links between International Services Agency (A4SI) and the company responsible for hiring former Colombian soldiers to fight alongside the RSF. It added that the latest sanctions follow earlier measures imposed in December 2025 and April 2026 on retired Colombian military officer Álvaro Andres Quijano Becerra and his wife Claudia Viviana Oliveros Forero, who the United States accused of leading a recruitment network for the RSF.
Washington has imposed multiple rounds of sanctions since the outbreak of the conflict, targeting individuals, companies and networks it says provide military, financial or logistical support to the warring parties, including defense firms, procurement and financing networks, arms suppliers and foreign fighter recruitment operations.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said President Donald Trump’s administration remained committed to advancing a lasting peace in Sudan and ending the conflict.
«”The networks profiting from the conflict in Sudan jeopardize the prospects for the humanitarian truce that the Sudanese people desperately need,” Bessent said.»
The United States renewed its call on the SAF and the RSF to accept and implement an immediate, unconditional three-month humanitarian truce, saying such a pause would facilitate the delivery of humanitarian assistance, protect civilians and create conditions for negotiations toward a permanent ceasefire.
Washington also called on all external actors to end financial and military support to the parties to the conflict.
The sanctions were imposed under Executive Order 14098 and include the blocking of all property and interests in property subject to U.S. jurisdiction, prohibitions on transactions involving designated persons, and the possibility of civil or criminal penalties for sanctions violations.
