HRA Chairman Saad Kassis-Mohamed Raises Alarm as Renewed Violence Threatens Sudan Peace Process

Cape Town | May 2026

(Pachodo.org) - The Human Rights Association (HRA) today raises formal alarm over the continuing and intensified violence in Sudan and its devastating impact on the civilian population, and calls on all parties to the conflict, the international community, and the UN Security Council to treat the current juncture as a critical and potentially final opportunity to impose a binding ceasefire, ensure unimpeded humanitarian access, and create the conditions for a genuine and inclusive peace process before the conflict causes irreversible damage to Sudan’s territorial integrity, civilian population, and any prospect of political resolution.

Sudan has now endured more than two years of armed conflict between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces. The HRA’s review of documented accounts confirms that the scale of human suffering is without parallel among active conflicts globally. More than 100,000 people have been killed. Over 15 million have been displaced, the largest displacement crisis in the world, surpassing all other active conflicts in total numbers. Famine conditions have been declared in multiple regions. Basic services have collapsed across large parts of the country. Hospitals, aid convoys, and civilian populations have been repeatedly and deliberately targeted by both parties.

The fall of El Fasher in October 2025, following an eighteen-month siege by the RSF that systematically denied the city’s population access to food, water, and medical supplies, produced atrocities of exceptional gravity. The HRA’s review of findings presented before the United Nations Human Rights Council confirms that the RSF conducted ethnically targeted killings, widespread sexual violence, enforced disappearances, and mass executions during and after its takeover of the city, acts which a UN Fact-Finding Mission described in February 2026 as bearing the hallmarks of genocide against the Zaghawa and Fur communities. The United Nations confirmed that more than 6,000 people were killed over three days during the RSF seizure. On 19 September 2025, RSF forces fired a missile at a mosque in El Fasher during Friday prayers, killing 75 civilians. These are not incidental casualties. They are documented war crimes.

Every attempt to establish a durable ceasefire has failed. The United States, Saudi Arabia, the African Union, and IGAD have all pursued mediation efforts that produced ceasefire declarations none of which held. In November 2025, the RSF announced a three-month humanitarian truce. The SAF rejected it, with its leader stating publicly that there would only be a ceasefire if the RSF surrendered. The Transitional Prime Minister presented a ceasefire proposal to the UN Security Council in December 2025. It was not implemented. Drone strikes by both sides have continued into 2026, including Egyptian-coordinated strikes on RSF positions and RSF drone and artillery attacks on civilian areas. The conflict is not winding down. It is expanding geographically and escalating in the sophistication and lethality of the weapons deployed.

The HRA notes that the international community’s response to the Sudan crisis has been widely assessed as inadequate relative to the scale of the catastrophe. The UN Security Council has been constrained by divisions among its permanent members from taking the action the situation demands. Humanitarian access has collapsed across much of the country. The women and children of Darfur, the displaced millions in Chad, Egypt, South Sudan, and Ethiopia, and the civilians trapped in besieged and contested areas across Sudan are bearing the full cost of that failure. The HRA calls on the international community to act with the urgency that two years of mass atrocity demands and that the current diplomatic window, however fragile, still permits.

HRA Chairman Saad Kassis-Mohamed stated: “More than two years of war in Sudan have produced more than 100,000 dead, 15 million displaced, famine across multiple regions, and a UN Fact-Finding Mission that has found the hallmarks of genocide in Darfur. Every ceasefire has been broken. Every mediation effort has failed. The international community has watched this unfold and has not acted with the urgency it demands. The UN Security Council has been divided. Humanitarian access has collapsed. The peace process is not stalled. It is dying. The HRA calls on every party with influence over the SAF and the RSF to use it now, unconditionally and without delay, to impose a ceasefire and open humanitarian corridors. The people of Sudan have not run out of suffering. The international community has run out of excuses.”

“More than two years of war in Sudan have produced more than 100,000 dead, 15 million displaced, famine across multiple regions, and a UN Fact-Finding Mission that has found the hallmarks of genocide in Darfur. Every ceasefire has been broken. Every mediation effort has failed. The peace process is not stalled. It is dying. The HRA calls on every party with influence over the SAF and the RSF to use it now, unconditionally and without delay. The people of Sudan have not run out of suffering. The international community has run out of excuses.”

Saad Kassis-Mohamed, Chairman, Human Rights Association

The HRA calls specifically on all parties to the conflict to implement an immediate and unconditional ceasefire and to cease all attacks on civilians, civilian infrastructure, hospitals, and humanitarian personnel; on the RSF to provide immediate and unimpeded humanitarian access to all areas under its control, including in Darfur, and to halt the campaign of ethnically targeted violence documented in El Fasher and elsewhere; on the SAF to engage in a genuine and inclusive peace process and to cease aerial bombardment of civilian areas; on the UN Security Council to overcome its internal divisions and impose binding obligations on both parties, including through targeted sanctions against commanders responsible for documented atrocities; and on the international community to provide adequate and unimpeded humanitarian support for the civilians of Sudan and the more than 15 million people displaced by this conflict.