JUBA — Sudan’s ambassador to South Sudan, Amb. Lt-Gen Isam Mohamed Hassan Karrar, on Wednesday said the investigation committee has delivered the long-awaited report on the Wad-Madani killings to President Salva Kiir Mayardit.
In January 2025, a video surfaced on social media showing the butchering of South Sudanese individuals in Wad Madani, after it was recently retaken by the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) from rebels.
The SAF recaptured Wad Madani from the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces led by Gen. Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, commonly known as Hemedti.
The videos have triggered widespread condemnation and protest across South Sudan.
These demonstrations resulted in the deaths of at least 16 Sudanese traders and the looting of markets primarily operated by Sudanese nationals and other foreign businesses.
In response, the Sudanese government ordered an investigation into allegations of atrocities committed by the army in Gezira after recapturing Wad Madani from the RSF.
Addressing journalists at a press conference in Juba on Wednesday, Sudanese envoy to Juba, Amb. Karrar, said the committee submitted their findings to President Kiir but did not provide details about the report.
“Regarding the incident that happened in El-Gazira and the information circulated that our brothers, the South Sudanese, were targeted and showed repercussions for the South Sudanese, and as you mentioned, a committee was formed,” Karrar said.
He said the investigation submitted the results of their findings to the presidents of the two countries.
“These matters; we put a solution, and people manage to overcome it peacefully in regard to what happened in Juba and El-Gazira.”
Karrar mentioned that there has been not significant information suggesting that ‘South Sudanese were the ones killed in Wad-Madani.
“The committee was established at the level of the Sudan presidency recently. The vice president of the Sudan Sovereign Council briefed President Salva Kiir Mayardit on the committee’s findings during his visit to South Sudan.”
A senior Sudanese diplomat stated that the embassy had not received a briefing on the committee’s outcome but confirmed that the findings were delivered to South Sudan’s president.
“We were not informed of the committee’s findings at the embassy, but they were collated and sent to the president since, as you are aware, anything involving the president and vice president is no longer our concern.”
He stated that if the embassy were to receive information about the findings of the inquiry committee, they would make it public for everyone’s benefit.
