How US dollars fuelled genocide: Jury slams French bank over Sudan sanctions violations
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Air strike bombing by Sudan air force close to the UN Mission in Kauda last year. A border war with South Sudan began in late March, escalating with waves of Sudanese air strikes against South Sudanese territory and the South's 10-day seizure of the Heglig oil field from Khartoum's army.
A US jury on Friday returned a historic verdict against BNP Paribas, finding the French bank helped Sudan's government commit genocide by providing banking services that violated American sanctions.
The federal jury in Manhattan ordered BNP Paribas to pay a combined $20.5 million (Sh2.6 billion) to three Sudanese plaintiffs who testified about human rights abuses perpetrated under former President Omar al-Bashir's rule.
