OBSERVER STATUS NO. 118
Presented at the Ordinary Session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) in Dakar, Senegal, on 12 – 17 October 2026.
Honourable Chairperson, Distinguished Commissioners, State Delegates, Members of the National Human Rights Institutions and Fellow Civil Society Representatives
The Kenyan Section of the International Commission of Jurists, a member-based organisation of jurists established in 1959, appreciates this opportunity to address the Commission’s 89th Ordinary Session and joins all delegates in commemoration of 40 years of the Charter.
Sudan
Honourable Chairperson, we are alarmed by the deepening conflict in Sudan that has now persisted for more than four years. The joint virtual fact-finding mission has documented widespread violations of international human rights and humanitarian law. In El Fasher, and now in El Obeid, the warring parties are bombing densely populated areas, blocking humanitarian corridors, using starvation as a weapon of war, and committing widespread conflict-related sexual violence. External networks sustain both sides of the warring parties with weapons and funding in exchange for Sudan’s natural resources. Despite declarations of war crimes and crimes against humanity, accountability remains non-existent.
