Rubio Calls to Block Foreign Arms Shipments to Sudan’s RSF Amid Reports of El-Fasher Atrocity

As of mid-October, more than 7 million people have been displaced within Sudan, according to the United Nations.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks to journalists at the John C. Munro Hamilton International Airport after the G7 foreign ministers meeting, in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, on Nov. 12, 2025. Mandel Ngan/Pool via Reuters

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Nov. 12 that steps to block foreign weapons flows to Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) must be taken, warning that continued advances by the paramilitary group were deepening the humanitarian suffering in Sudan.

Speaking to reporters at the close of the G7 foreign ministers’ meeting in Canada, Rubio said the United States was pressing all parties “at the highest levels” to stop the conflict, now more than two and a half years old.