Tag Archives: Darfur

(15 August, 2023) African Centre for Justice and Peace (ACJPS) is deeply concerned about the deteriorating security in Darfur region. ACJPS condemns the violent arbitrary attacks by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the affiliated Arab militias against Sudanese citizens in Darfur region. We call upon the Sudanese authorities …

  (06 July 2023) African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies (ACJPS) is deeply concerned about the violence against and obstruction of health care sector as the armed conflict between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and Rapid Support Forces (RSF) intensifies in Darfur region.  At least nine government hospitals are …

(28 June 2023) African Center for Justice and Peace Studies (ACJPS) would like to express deep concern about the safety and security of human rights defenders in Elgenina, West Darfur. Eight human rights defenders whose names have been withheld for their safety have been targeted in Elgenina since the armed …

  (10 April 2023) African Center for Justice and Peace Studies (ACJPS) is deeply concerned over the deteriorating security in Sudan. We call upon the Sudanese authorities to urgently conduct an independent investigation into the incidents that happened between 22 to 24 March 2023 in Tandalti village in West Darfur …

Paris, 26 September 2019 – Nine Sudanese victims, supported by FIDH and Project Expedite Justice, have filed a criminal complaint today targeting BNP Paribas for alleged complicity in crimes against humanity, torture, and genocide that took place in Sudan, as well as financial offences. This complaint marks the first attempt …

(22 May 2018) On 21 May 2018, the case against Musa Hilal and six co-accused continued for its third hearing before a military court set up at the Military Intelligence headquarters in Khartoum. According to reliable information received, Musa Hilal and his co-accused have been charged with crimes under articles …

(18 April 2018) From 9 March – 2 April 2018, the African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies (ACJPS) has documented a number of attacks perpetrated against civilian targets in East Jebel Marra in South Darfur state by the Sudanese Armed Forces, Rapid Support Forces and other government sponsored militias. …

(24 January 2018) At least 5 people were killed and 26 others sustained gunshot wounds when joint forces of Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and Rapid Support Forces (RSF) opened live ammunition on a crowd of protestors at Hasahisa camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Zalingi, Central Darfur, on 20 January. …

(19 December 2017) The African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies (ACJPS) calls for urgent steps to be taken to investigate and hold to account the perpetrators of a gang rape of a 16-year-old girl and a woman who reported the incident to the police in Nertiti, Central Darfur. Sudanese authorities …

  (28 September 2017) At least five people were killed and 29 others sustained gunshot wounds when Sudanese forces opened live ammunition on a crowd of protestors at Kalma camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Nyala, South Darfur on 22 September, shortly before a planned visit by Sudan’s President …