Michael Kaluki

The U.S.

Treasury Department has put in place sanctions targeting five companies and individuals involved in recruiting former Colombian military personnel to fight on behalf of the paramilitary group, the Rapid Support Forces, or RSF.

Among those sanctioned

are a former colonel in the Colombian army as well as a Colombia-based employment agency.

Clashes involving the RSF and the Sudanese armed forces have been going on for three years.

The U.S.

has called on both warring sides to accept a three-month humanitarian truce.

Scores of civilians caught up in the conflict are being killed and uprooted from their homes in what aid groups say is the world's worst humanitarian crisis.

For NPR News, I'm Michael Kaluki in Nairobi.

The Law Society did not have any details about the detainees or their nationalities.

but called the plan to receive U.S.

deportees, quote, undignified, harrowing and dehumanizing.

Last year, Uganda's government announced it signed a deal with Washington agreeing to accept deported migrants from the U.S.

with a preference for those of African origin.

Over the past year, the U.S.

has paid millions to deport detainees to South Sudan, Rwanda, Eswatini and Ghana.

Uganda's Law Society says it will challenge the legality of the country accepting the U.S.

deportees and raise questions about the private interests who will profit from the agreement.

The Ugandan government is yet to respond.

For NPR News, I'm Michael Kaluki in Nairobi.