A new report claims that new evidence confirms that the Sudanese Armed Forces used chlorine gas in chemical weapon attacks last September.
On May 22, the U.S. State Department announced economic sanctions against Sudan and claimed that the Sudanese government illegally used chemical weapons.
At the time, the State Department said, “On April 24, 2025, the United States determined under the Chemical and Biological Weapons Control and Warfare Elimination Act of 1991 (the CBW Act) that the Government of Sudan used chemical weapons in 2024.”
According to France 24, while the State Department accused the Sudan Armed Forces of using chemical weapons amid its war with the Rapid Support Forces militia, the United States did not release evidence to support the accusations against Sudan’s government, and the Sudanese military denied the allegations.
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However, France 24 reported that the news organization’s Observers team documented two incidents of the use of chemical weapons in Sudan in September of 2024. The outlet reported that video evidence confirms that chlorine barrels were dropped from the air by the Sudan Armed Forces.
The use of chlorine as a weapon is a violation of the Chemical Weapons Convention and is considered a war crime under the International Criminal Court’s Rome Statute.
France 24 reported that its Observers team used open-source investigation techniques to investigate two chemical weapon incidents from September of 2024 that occurred near the al-Jaili oil refinery in Sudan. The outlet noted that the Sudan Armed Forces was trying to recapture the oil refinery from the Rapid Support Forces at the time. As part of the investigation France 24 conducted, five experts confirmed that pictures from the incidents were consistent with the aerial deployment of chlorine barrels.
Pictures and videos reviewed by France 24 show metal containers believed to have contained chlorine next to small craters in the ground. France 24 reported that a video from one of the incidents also shows a yellow and green cloud that is characteristic of a chlorine gas attack.
