Dabanga correspondent Ashraf Abdelaziz reported from Addis Ababa, where the annual AU summit's 37th Ordinary Session opened yesterday, that the meeting of the CSOs concluded with a statement in which they condemned"the ongoing violent confrontations between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces and its allied militias".
In their statement to the AU, the CSOs called on the"African statesmen participating in this session of the African Union Assembly" to condemn the violence, demand a ceasefire, put pressure on the warring parties to end the conflict, send a military force to stop human rights violations and ensure the arrival of humanitarian aid, and establish a mechanism to monitor and document human rights violations.
African countries and international actors are to be mobilised to put pressure on the warring parties and force the leaders of the warring parties to put an immediate end to the conflict and to establish a monitoring mechanism concerning on the widespread violations of human rights and international humanitarian law by members of both warring parties, with particular attention to the situation in Darfur.
According to Hannah Forster, director of the Gambia-based African Centre for Democracy and Human Rights Studies, the Sudan crisis results from previous accumulations and the neglect by African institutions of civil society organisations' warnings about the danger of Al Bashir government and its formation of the Janjaweed militias.
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