The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) imposed sanctions on five individuals and entities involved in recruiting and deploying former Colombian military personnel to Sudan to fight on behalf of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). The action, taken under Executive Order 14098, was framed as targeting a network that has fueled the conflict and deepened the humanitarian crisis, alongside renewed U.S. calls for an immediate three-month humanitarian truce and for external actors to stop backing the belligerents. The designations cover Bogotá-based employment agency Fénix Human Resources S.A.S.; its nominal manager Jose Libardo Quijano Torres; former Colombian Army Colonel Jose Oscar Garcia Batte; his recruiting firm Global Qowa Al-Basheria S.A.S. (GQAB, also known as Mi Futuro Global); and Omar Fernando Garcia Batte. OFAC linked these actors to previously designated recruiters and firms including Alvaro Andres Quijano Becerra, Claudia Viviana Oliveros Forero, International Services Agency (A4SI), and Panama-based Talent Bridge, S.A. The sanctions block all property and interests in property of the designated persons within U.S. jurisdiction or held by U.S. persons, extend to entities owned 50 percent or more by blocked persons, and generally prohibit U.S. persons from transactions involving blocked property absent OFAC authorization.
U.S. Department of the Treasury 2026-04-17
U.S. Department of the Treasury’s OFAC sanctions five individuals and entities for recruiting former Colombian military personnel to fight in Sudan for the RSF
The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control imposed sanctions under Executive Order 14098 on five individuals and entities involved in recruiting and deploying former Colombian military personnel to fight in Sudan for the Rapid Support Forces. The designations target Fénix Human Resources S.A.S., Global Qowa Al-Basheria S.A.S. (Mi Futuro Global), associated managers and recruiters, and link them to previously designated firms and individuals. All property and interests in property of the designated persons within U.S. jurisdiction are blocked, including entities they own 50 percent or more, and U.S. persons are generally prohibited from related transactions absent authorization.