Gedo Hamdan Ahmed

Authority

FCDO / HM Treasury OFSI

Instrument

The Sudan (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020; UK Sanctions List ref SUD0024 (OFSI Group ID 17259)

Listed

12 Dec 2025

Scope

Asset freeze, travel ban, director disqualification (as stated in the UK notice of 25 February 2026)

Notes

The UK statement of reasons says there are reasonable grounds to suspect he is an involved person in serious violations of international humanitarian law, including mass killings, ethnically targeted executions, sexual violence, abductions for ransom, arbitrary detention and attacks on health and humanitarian workers. The entry was varied on 25 February 2026 to record the UN listing (designation source now UK and UN).

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Authority

Council of the European Union

Instrument

EU Sudan regime: Council Decision (CFSP) 2026/254 amending Decision (CFSP) 2023/2135 and Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2026/251 implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/2147; listed as Gedo HAMDAN

Listed

29 Jan 2026

Scope

Asset freeze, prohibition on making funds or economic resources available, travel ban

Notes

Adopted 29 January 2026 (instrument numbers confirmed by EUR-Lex record of Implementing Regulation 2026/251 and by Radio Dabanga). The Council's draft statement of reasons identifies him as a key perpetrator of RSF atrocities in El Fasher in October 2025. Final annex entry number not confirmed.

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Authority

US Department of the Treasury, OFAC

Instrument

Executive Order 14098 (Sudan); SDN List, listed as Gedo Hamdan Ahmed Mohamed

Listed

19 Feb 2026

Scope

Blocking of property and interests in property subject to US jurisdiction

Notes

OFAC designated him as a leader of the RSF. It stated that during his tenure the RSF besieged and captured El Fasher and that RSF fighters were documented massacring thousands and committing abductions, torture and sexual and gender-based violence, and that he was filmed at an abandoned SAF base in El Fasher after its capture.

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Authority

UN Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1591 (2005) concerning Sudan

Instrument

Paragraph 3(c) of resolution 1591 (2005); UN ref SDi.007

Listed

24 Feb 2026

Scope

Travel ban and asset freeze (UN Member States)

Notes

The UN narrative summary cites conduct threatening peace, security or stability in Darfur, and records that he was one of six RSF generals filmed in El Fasher on 26 October 2025, the day the RSF reportedly carried out mass killings of civilians there. Sudan Tribune reported the listing followed a proposal by the US, UK and France.

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