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.
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...
Af4HA letter to H.E. Ms Jainaba Jagne – Ambassador of The Gambia to the African Union
Monitor March 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...
Monitor February 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...
The ICC and UNSC Must Do More for Sudan’s Mass Atrocity Victims
UNSC refers sitation in Darfur, Sudan to ICC Security Council 6217th meeting. Photo Credit: Coalition for the ICC SUDAN TRIBUNE By Janet Sankale On 24 January 2024, the Africans for the Horn of Africa Initiative (Af4HA), a coalition of African civil society...
Af4HA Welcomes IGAD’s Resolutions on Sudan – but Calls to Align IGAD Action to the Will of the People
Flags of IGAD member states fly at the Peace Hotel compound in Mogadishu, Somalia, the venue of the Extra-Ordinary IGAD Heads of State Summit on September 13, 2016. AMISOM Photo / Omar Abdisalan 23 January 2023 “I feel that things will only change when We – The People...