The Biden administration has announced new sanctions against Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces after concluding the paramilitary group committed genocide. Secretary of State Tony Blinken said Tuesday he’d made the determination “after reviewing the horrifying information of suffering inside Sudan,” where more than half the population — some 25.6 million people — has faced crisis-level hunger over the past year. The U.N. says more than 150,000 people have been killed since fighting erupted in April 2023; 11 million have fled their homes. The New York Times reports the Biden administration had been reluctant to admit that the Rapid Support Forces were committing genocide in Sudan, for fear it would highlight Biden’s refusal to make the same determination about Israel’s killing of Palestinians in Gaza.