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The UN Security Council on Wednesday extended an arms embargo on Sudan’s Darfur region for another year.

In a resolution adopted unanimously, the Council extended until September 12, 2025, the sanctions regime in place since 2005, which is aimed solely at Darfur.

That includes individual sanctions asset freezes, a travel ban on three people, and an arms embargo.

“The people of Darfur continue to live in danger and desperation and despair. This adoption sends an important signal to them that the international community remains focused on their plight,” said Deputy US Ambassador Robert Wood.

Though sanctions do not apply to the whole country, their renewal “will restrict the movement of arms into Darfur and sanction individuals and entities contributing to or complicit in destabilizing activities in Sudan,” he said.

More than 16 months of clashes between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have killed tens of thousands of people and triggered what the United Nations calls the world’s worst internal displacement crisis.