Jim Risch

The Republican chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Jim Risch, and the ranking Democrat, Gene Shaheen, were joined by four other senators in sounding the alarm about the atrocities in Sudan's civil war now in its third year.

They say the U.S.

should designate the RSF as a foreign terrorist organization or put it on another terrorist blacklist.

They blame both sides, the RSF and the Sudanese armed forces, of committing atrocities, and they say several countries are fueling the conflict and profiting from it.

That includes the United Arab Emirates, which backs the RSF, as well as Russia, Iran, China, and other governments that are involved.

Michelle Kellerman, NPR News, Washington.