S. 4726 — PEACE in Sudan Act

This section provides short titles for the Act as the “Preventing External Aggression and Conflict Escalation in Sudan Act of 2026” or the “PEACE in Sudan Act” and sets out the table of contents for its 16 sections.

This section establishes United States policy to advance national security in Sudan by identifying and disrupting criminal networks that benefit from instability and conflict; to end the war using all diplomatic and economic tools; to counter malign foreign interference and destabilizing actors; to promote stability, address humanitarian suffering, and hold perpetrators of war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide accountable; to protect the human rights of all Sudanese people; and to support a transition to a democratic, accountable civilian government at peace with its neighbors.

This section defines terms used throughout the Act, including admission, admitted, and alien (with meanings from the Immigration and Nationality Act); aid or abet; appropriate congressional committees; atrocity (war crimes, crimes against humanity, or genocide); foreign person; genocide; international financial institution (listing 12 specific entities plus any future multilateral institutions aiding Sudan); non-state armed group; Quad (the diplomatic grouping of the United States, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates); Quintet (the diplomatic grouping of the African Union, the Intergovernmental Authority on Development, the League of Arab States, the European Union, and the United Nations); torture; United States person; and war crime (including sexual violence).

This section requires the Secretary of State, in coordination with the Director of National Intelligence, to submit a report to the appropriate congressional committees not later than 90 days after enactment and semiannually thereafter. The report must analyze foreign government and malign actor support for the Sudan conflict and atrocities, including arms transfers, combatant numbers, drone strikes, child soldier training, intelligence sharing, sanctions evasion, financial support, business interests, UN arms embargo violations, and private commercial activity in the war economy; it must also assess whether such actions involve U.S.-origin defense articles or violate U.S. assurances or UN embargoes. The report is due in unclassified form with a possible classified annex, followed by a briefing within 15 days.

This section requires the Secretary of State to submit a comprehensive report, not later than 90 days after enactment and semiannually thereafter, to the appropriate congressional committees on atrocities and gross violations of internationally recognized human rights in Sudan since April 15, 2023. The reports must describe specific acts by the Sudanese Armed Forces, Rapid Support Forces, and other entities, including child soldier recruitment, sexual violence, denial of humanitarian access, targeting of medical facilities and places of worship, and ethnically motivated violence, as well as sanctions imposed under the Chemical and Biological Weapons Control and Warfare Elimination Act of 1991.

This section directs the Secretary of State, in coordination with the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of Defense, and other agencies, to develop and submit within 180 days a comprehensive strategy to secure a ceasefire and durable political settlement in Sudan. The strategy must address ending the conflict, crippling the war economy, holding perpetrators of atrocities accountable, countering foreign military support to the Sudanese Armed Forces and Rapid Support Forces, ensuring humanitarian access and protection measures, and engaging bordering countries and regional institutions. The Secretary must brief the appropriate congressional committees on implementation status and updates every 90 days thereafter.

This section requires the Secretary of State, in consultation with the Secretary of the Treasury and the Attorney General, to assess whether any armed actor in Sudan meets the criteria for designation as a specially designated global terrorist under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. It mandates submission of a classified report on the assessment results and planned actions to the appropriate congressional committees within 90 days.

This section authorizes the President to impose sanctions, including asset blocking, prohibitions on loans or financial transactions, and visa inadmissibility or revocation, on any foreign person determined to be responsible for or complicit in actions that threaten Sudan’s peace, security, stability, or territorial integrity. Such actions include supplying arms to the Sudanese Armed Forces or Rapid Support Forces, recruiting child soldiers, committing atrocities or gross human rights violations, smuggling natural resources, obstructing humanitarian assistance, or impeding formation of a civilian government.

This section directs the Secretary of the Treasury to instruct United States representatives at international financial institutions to oppose any loans or financial or technical assistance for debt relief and long-term development to the Government of Sudan. It permits a presidential national security waiver and exempts projects whose sole purpose is lifesaving humanitarian aid for basic human needs such as emergency food, shelter, health, water, sanitation, and hygiene.

This section directs the Secretary of State, in coordination with the Secretaries of Labor and Commerce, to update the Sudan Business Risk Advisory within 90 days of enactment. The update must add information on Sudanese gold as a conflict mineral and foreign government roles in its supply chain, the gum arabic supply chain and its role in fueling conflict along smuggling routes through Chad, the Central African Republic, and South Sudan, and business risks with entities tied to the Sudanese Armed Forces, Rapid Support Forces, or non-state armed groups.

This section directs the United States Mission to the United Nations to assess the need for additional coordination among the United States, the United Nations Security Council, the European Union, and partner countries on sanctions regimes. It also requires an assessment of whether the mandate of the United Nations Panel of Experts on the Sudan—established by Resolution 1591 (2005) and extended by Resolution 2791 (2025)—is sufficient to report fully to the Security Council on the war, including violations of the United Nations arms embargo.

This section prohibits United States assistance to Sudan that provides financial or capacity building support to Government of Sudan institutions, constitutes nonhumanitarian development assistance, supports debt relief under the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Initiative, or constitutes security assistance. It authorizes the President to waive the prohibition on national security grounds and requires the Secretary of State, in consultation with the Secretary of Agriculture and other agencies, to submit an annual report to the appropriate congressional committees detailing all United States foreign assistance to Sudan beginning 90 days after enactment.

This section requires the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Director of National Intelligence and the Secretary of State, to submit an annual unclassified report (with possible classified annex) to the appropriate congressional committees, beginning no later than 180 days after enactment. The report must list all countries and foreign banking institutions holding assets on behalf of senior officials in the Sudanese Armed Forces, Rapid Support Forces, and General Intelligence Service, and describe how foreign actors profit from the war in Sudan through business sectors.

This section terminates the requirements under sections 4, 5, 6, 10, 13, and 14 thirty days after the Secretary of State certifies to the appropriate congressional committees that a credible and durable peace agreement, cessation of hostilities, or other end to hostilities has been achieved and verified and that the Sudanese Armed Forces or any other body or institution of the Government of Sudan is no longer committing atrocities.