Atrocities Watch Africa (AWA) is a non-partisan civil society organisation that provides continental leadership in matters pertaining to the prevention of mass atrocities within Africa. Our strategies and approaches are grounded in the realisation that atrocities can...
Sudan
Sudan also known as North Sudan and officially the Republic of the Sudan, is a country in northeastern Africa. Sudan is a member of the United Nations, the African Union, the Arab League, the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation and the Non-Aligned Movement, as well as an observer in the World Trade Organization. Its capital is Khartoum, the political, cultural and commercial centre of the nation. It is a presidential representative democratic federal republic. The politics of Sudan is regulated by a parliamentary organization called the National Assembly. The Sudanese legal system is based on Islamic law.
Statement of Young Sudanese Women on the need for Accountability in Sudan at the Twenty-third session of the Assembly of States Parties
On the occasion of the annual meeting of the Assembly of States Parties to the ICC in The Hague, young Sudanese women working to document violations in pursuit of justice and to ensure accountability call on those states and the court to do more to ensure...
Monitor October 2024
Atrocities Watch Africa (AWA) is a non-partisan civil society organisation that provides continental leadership in matters pertaining to the prevention of mass atrocities within Africa. Our strategies and approaches are grounded in the realisation that atrocities can...
Special Convening on Sudan at the 81st Ordinary Session of the African Commission of the Human & People’s Rights
Join Africans for the Horn of Africa of Africa (Af4HA) Initiative, the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR), Open Society Foundations (OSF) and The African Centre for Democracy and Human Rights Studies (ACDHRS) for a special convening at the...
Monitor June 2024
Atrocities Watch Africa (AWA) is a non-partisan civil society organisation that provides continental leadership in matters pertaining to the prevention of mass atrocities within Africa. Our strategies and approaches are grounded in the realisation that atrocities can...
Sudan: Extend the Fact-Finding Mission’s mandate
The Statement on the Human Rights Situation in the Horn of Africa
No to second anniversary of Sudan war
Sudan: A forgotten crisis. Photo credit: EU/ECHO/Anouk Delafortrie By Brian Kagoro April 15 marked one year since the breakout of the devastating war in Sudan that has killed 14,000 people, displaced over 16.5 million and led to the worst humanitarian crisis today...
One year into the crisis in Sudan, South Africa should use its influence to help bring peace
Refugees from Sudan waiting at the border point for transportation. Photo credit: UNHCR/Ala Kheir Daily Maverick By Dismas Nkunda April 15 marked the first anniversary of the conflict in Sudan. The situation is dire: since the outbreak of the crisis nearly nine...