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French military technology is being used in Sudan's brutal civil war in violation of a UN arms embargo, rights organisation Amnesty International has said.

It also asks health care institutions to support an arms embargo of Israel and divestment from companies implicated in violence.

The US trade embargo was first imposed in 1962 in the wake of the revolution in Cuba, which swept Fidel Castro to power.

The embargo, he argued, made it impossible to import new parts to overhaul the grid or bring in enough fuel to run the power stations, even to access credit in the international banking system.

And Georgian officials have long denied that the country has been complicit in aiding Russia’s evasion of the trade embargoes.