US labels Sudan's Muslim Brotherhood as 'terrorists'

AFP , AP , Monday 9 Mar 2026

The United States said Monday it will label the Muslim Brotherhood in Sudan as a terrorist organization and accused the Islamist group of receiving support from Iran.

FILE- The State Department in Washington, DC. AP

The designation, which will be effective in a week, comes after the United States in January declared several other Muslim Brotherhood branches to be terrorist organizations, including in its historic base of Egypt.

"The Sudanese Muslim Brotherhood uses unrestrained violence against civilians to undermine efforts to resolve the conflict in Sudan and advance its violent Islamist ideology," the State Department claimed in a statement.

It’s the fourth chapter of the group the U.S. has hit with the label.

The State Department said that the Sudan branch would be classified as a “specially designated global terrorist” group with immediate effect and would be labeled a “foreign terrorist organization” once a congressional review of the move is complete on March 16.

It claimed the group was responsible for “mass executions of civilians” among other things.

The Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT) designation imposes sanctions but the Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTO) designation ramps up those penalties to include making it a crime to provide material support for the group or its members.