The Committee for Justice (CFJ) has monitored the deaths of six volunteer aid workers and activists from the area of (Block 69) in Al-Ma’moura, East Khartoum, due to medical neglect after they contracted cholera while detained in facilities operated by the Rapid Support Forces.
Local Sudanese sources announced on Thursday, April 10, 2025, the deaths of (Khalid Qaloub, Ahmed Wadidi, Mohamed Wadidi, Mandhir Al-Sheikh, Abdel Qader Bahr, and Ahmed Bahr), who were arrested in November 2024 while carrying out voluntary work providing humanitarian assistance to affected populations. They were held in detention centers affiliated with the Rapid Support Militia.
Sources explained that the six volunteers died after contracting cholera, which spread due to the inhumane conditions in the detention centers, where they were deprived of medical care and even the most basic necessities for a dignified life. Following the withdrawal of the Rapid Support Militia from Khartoum after the Sudanese army’s advances, hundreds of detainees were left to an unknown fate inside secret detention centers.
The CFJ strongly condemns the systematic medical neglect and inhumane detention conditions that led to the deaths of the six volunteers in Rapid Support Forces detention centers. The committee emphasizes that these crimes represent a blatant violation of humanitarian principles and international laws, pointing out that depriving detainees of basic healthcare and deliberately exposing them to diseases and epidemics reflects a criminal policy aimed at humiliating civilians and taking lives with no regard for human rights.
The CFJ calls for an independent and transparent investigation to determine those responsible for these heinous crimes, stressing the need to hold the perpetrators accountable and prevent impunity.
The CFJ also urges the Rapid Support Forces to immediately cooperate with UN mechanisms, humanitarian organizations, and international bodies to locate secret detention centers and put an end to policies of enforced disappearances and medical neglect.