PEACE in Sudan Act

This provision requires the Secretary of State, in coordination with the Director of National Intelligence, to submit semi-annual reports detailing the involvement of foreign governments and malign actors in the Sudanese conflict. These reports must include information on arms transfers, combatant support, drone strikes, intelligence sharing, financial support, business interests, and violations of UN arms embargoes. It also covers the activities of specific non-state armed groups and private/commercial activities (e.g., gold, gum arabic, banking) that fuel the war economy.

This section mandates semi-annual reports from the Secretary of State on atrocities and gross human rights violations committed in Sudan since April 15, 2023. The report must describe various abuses, including child soldier recruitment, the use of starvation and sexual violence as weapons of war, denial of humanitarian access, destruction of civilian infrastructure, summary executions, targeting of medical facilities and religious sites, and ethnically motivated violence. It also requires continued monitoring of the use of chemical weapons.

This provision requires the Secretary of State to develop a comprehensive strategy to secure a ceasefire and durable political settlement in Sudan. The strategy must include plans to end the conflict through diplomatic negotiations, cripple the war economy, counter foreign military support, promote stability and humanitarian access (including trauma-informed care and preventing human trafficking), engage with neighboring countries, and identify opportunities for U.S. economic engagement and investment in post-conflict Sudan.

This section authorizes the President to impose sanctions, including asset blocking, prohibitions on financial transactions, and visa denials or revocations, on foreign persons. These sanctions apply to individuals or entities determined to be responsible for, complicit in, or facilitating actions that threaten Sudan's peace and stability, supply arms, use child soldiers, direct foreign military forces, aid the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) or Rapid Support Forces (RSF), obstruct peace processes, commit atrocities, smuggle natural resources (like gold and gum arabic), violate arms embargoes, target civilians, obstruct humanitarian aid, operate private military companies contributing to violence, impede investigations, or obstruct civilian government formation. Exceptions are provided for compliance with the UN Headquarters Agreement, intelligence/law enforcement activities, humanitarian assistance, and the importation of goods.

This provision instructs the U.S. Executive Director or appropriate head of international financial institutions (such as the IMF, World Bank, and African Development Bank) to use the U.S. voice and vote to oppose premature, new, long-term reconstruction or capacity-building support for Sudan that would benefit malign actors. It also requires working with other key donor countries to develop a coordinated lending policy for a post-conflict scenario, including firm benchmarks and preconditions for lending. Exceptions are made for national security waivers and for specific loans or financial assistance solely supporting lifesaving humanitarian projects.

This section prohibits the furnishing of certain types of United States assistance to Sudan. Specifically, it bans assistance that directly provides financial or capacity building support to Government of Sudan institutions, supports debt relief through the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Initiative to restructure, reschedule, or cancel sovereign debt, or constitutes security assistance. A national security waiver is available, and an annual report detailing all U.S. foreign assistance to Sudan is required.