Britain on Monday imposed sanctions against businesses which support activity of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), Reuters reported.
Also, the Canadian Foreign Ministry announced that Canada is introducing new sanctions measures under the Special Economic Measures Act in response to this ongoing conflict in Sudan.
It said those sanctioned are associated with the SAF or RSF.
The new batch of sanctions came while at least six civilians were killed and tens others injured in clashes between the SAF and the RSF in El Fasher, the capital city of North Darfur State.
The State had been a site of comparative stability and a key humanitarian refuge before violence broke out there too on Sunday.
The clashes came as France was preparing an international humanitarian conference for war-battered Sudan and its neighbors on Monday.
The Sudan doctors’ union said late on Sunday that El-Fasher hospital had reported “six deaths and 61 injuries ... following clashes” in the city.
Earlier, the local resistance committee, part of a nationwide pro-democracy organisation marshalling aid across Sudan, said the number of deaths had reached nine.
The RSF of Mohamed Hamdan Daglo managed to take control of four of Darfur's five states, except for El Fasher. The city is controlled by rebel armed groups, which pledged to maintain a neutral position, and therefore, had managed, until Sunday, to avoid engaging in the fighting.
Last week, the Joint Force of Armed Struggle Movements (JSAMF), a coalition comprising various armed groups from Sudan's Darfur region, has formally renounced neutrality and declared war on the RSF.
“The Joint Force of Armed Struggle declares that there is no neutrality anymore and it will fight alongside its allies, nationalists, and the Armed Forces against the RSF militia and their mercenary allies,” the groups said in a statement.
