The US  has announced sanctions against 52 people and entities from around the world over alleged human rights abuses and corruption. This includes Israeli billionaire Gertler over Congo deals and Benjamin Bol Mel of South Sudan. Announcing the sanctions, Secretary of the Treasury Steven T. Mnuchin said freezing the assets and denouncing the acts they’ve committed, sends "a message that there is a steep price to pay for their misdeeds.”

[Refers to Africada Airways, Kanilai Group International, Kanilai Worni Family Farms, Royal Africa Capital Holding, Africada Financial Service & Bureau de Change, Africada Micro-Finance, Africada Insurance Company, Kora Media Corporation, Atlantic Pelican Company, Palm Grove Africa Dev’t Corp., Patriot Insurance Brokers Co., and Royal Africa Securities Brokerage, Pieter Albert Deboutte, Fleurette Properties, Fleurette Holdings Netherlands B.V., Gertler Family Foundation, Oil of DR Congo SPRL, Jarvis Congo SARL, International Diamond Industries, D.G.D. Investments, D.G.I. Israel Ltd, Proglan Capital, Emaxon Finance International Inc., Africa Horizons Investment, Caprikat Limited, Foxwhelp, Caprikat and Foxwhelp SARL, Lora Enterprises, Zuppa Holdings, Orama Properties, DGI Mining, and Rozaro Development, Preduzece Za Trgovinu Na Veliko I Malo Partizan Tech DOO Beograd-Savski Venac (“Partizan Tech”), Charso, Grawit, Technoglobal Systems DOO Beograd,ABMC Thai-South Sudan Construction, and Home and Away]