February 10, 2025 (ADDIS ABABA) – The African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) is still waiting for visas from authorities in Port Sudan to allow a fact-finding mission to investigate human rights abuses in Sudan, Commissioner Hatem Essaiem, Chairperson of the Fact-Finding Mission on Sudan, said on Monday. The ACHPR decided on June 3 to send a fact-finding mission to Sudan to investigate human rights violations and breaches of humanitarian law since the conflict erupted on April 15, 2023. “The mission has been waiting for visas for some time now,” Commissioner Essaiem said in a video addressed to a civil society consultative meeting on Sudan in Addis Ababa. He stressed the need to pressure the authorities in Port Sudan to grant access to the areas where violations occurred so that the mission could collect testimonies and evidence. “If we want to go to Sudan, the African Union charters require us to obtain permits from governments, and this is a body we must go through to meet the victims,” Essaiem said. “If it is impossible to obtain that approval, we will move to Sudan’s neighbouring countries to listen to the victims,” he added. He also said the mission had …

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