SAMNET reiterates its call for greater efforts towards peace in Sudan.

The conflict began in the last days of Ramadaan in 2023. It is now approaching its second year, and it remains the conflict that consistently falls out of view.

What the UN found

A UN report published on 6 March 2025 documents a widespread pattern of arbitrary detention, torture and ill-treatment of detainees by both the Rapid Support Forces and the Sudanese Armed Forces in Khartoum State — mirroring practice recorded in other conflict-affected areas of Sudan.

Tens of thousands of people, women and children among them, have been held without charge since April 2023, with limited or no contact with their families, in squalid and overcrowded facilities.

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, described the practices as deeply disturbing, and said no one should be deprived of liberty without due process, nor subjected under any circumstances to torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment.

The report covers verified cases, which means the actual scale is wider.

As in every conflict, the burden falls hardest on women and children, and the trauma outlasts the violence by decades.

What we are asking

We call on our government and on the international community to act swiftly to bring the conflict to an end — or at minimum to secure a lasting ceasefire, for the safety and security of the Sudanese people.

Sudan: UN report details rampant abuse of detainees amid ongoing conflict — OHCHR, 6 March 2025.

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