WASHINGTON, Sept. 4 -- Sen. Chris Murphy issued the following press release:
U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) on Friday led seven of his colleagues in sending a letter (https://www.murphy.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/sudan_un_sanctions_regime_letter_9426.pdf) to U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz calling for the U.S. to push to pass additional sanctions measures in Sudan that would limit the flow of funds to the warring parties driving the largest humanitarian crisis in the world. Murphy specifically advocated for international prohibitions on the sale of precursor chemicals utilized in certain types of gold extraction and development of due diligence guidelines for the procurement of gum arabic, a natural resource frequently ...