Last Updated: January 19, 2026

Awad Ibn AUF

Aliases

Mohammed Ahmed Awad Ibn AUF; Awad Muhammad Ibn AUF; Awad Mohammed Ahmed Ebni NAUF; Awad Mohamed Ahmed Ibn OUF; Awad Ahmad Ibn AWF; Awad Mohamed Ahmed Ibn OAF; Awad Ibn AWF

Position

Head of Military Intelligence and Security

Nationality

Sudan

DoB

circa 1954

Official reason

Sudan's head of Military Intelligence and Security, Awad Ibn Auf, was also designated today, along with Khalil Ibrahim, leader of the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM), a rebel group that has refused to sign the Darfur Peace Agreement.Harun and Auf are among Khartoum's senior leadership and have acted as liaisons between the Sudanese government a...

Other Information

https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/hp426

Date of listing

2007-05-29

Program information

Authority

US

Program

Darfur Sanctions Regulations, 31 C.F.R. part 546

Regime

OFAC country specific

Target State

Sudan

Measures

Blocking Property

Sanctions Portfolio

Pursuant to Section 906 of the Trade Sanctions Reform and Export Enhancement Act of 2000, 22 U.S.C. 7205 (TSRA), an OFAC license is still required for certain exports and reexports to Sudan of agricultural commodities, medicine, and medical devices as a result of Sudan's inclusion on the State Sponsors of Terrorism List.

Official Information

Removal of the Sudanese Sanctions Regulations On November 3, 1997, the President issued Executive Order 13067, “Blocking Sudanese Government Property and Prohibiting Transactions With Sudan” (E.O. 13067), declaring a national emergency to deal with the unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United State...

Additional Details

SDN

Program URL

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2018/06/29/2018-14084/removal-of-the-sudanese-sanctions-regulations-and-amendment-of-the-terrorism-list-government