"BNP Paribas must face lawsuit over Sudanese genocide, US judge rules," 18 April 2024

BNP Paribas was ordered by a U.S. judge... to face a lawsuit accusing the French bank of helping Sudan's government commit genocide between 1997 and 2011 by providing banking services that violated American sanctions...

The proposed class action was brought by U.S. residents who had fled non-Arab indigenous black African communities in South Sudan, Darfur, and the Nuba Mountains in central Sudan. They are seeking unspecified damages.

A spokesman for BNP Paribas declined to comment.

The U.S. government recognized the Sudanese conflict as a genocide in 2004.

[The] decision came in a lawsuit originally filed in 2016. A different judge dismissed the case in 2018, but a federal appeals court revived it in 2019.