WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 -- Sen. Tim Kaine issued the following press release:
U.S. Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, joined a group of his colleagues led by Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) in pressing the State Department to use its leverage to prevent further atrocities in Sudan and help bring the war to an end. In a letter to U.S. Secretary of State and National Security Advisor Marco Rubio, the senators stressed the immediate need for the State Department to act in light of the impending siege of the city of El Obeid and following the atrocities that occurred in El Fasher last year.
"We write with alarm regarding the Rapid Support Forces' (RSF) impending siege of the city of El Obeid in Sudan, whi...