PRESS RELEASE
Ireland Sudan Solidarity Collective in collaboration with Mothers Against Genocide, United Sudanese Community of Ireland, ROSA Socialist Feminist Party, Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign, United Against Racism, Ireland for a World Beyond War, Queer Intifada, North Wicklow Against Genocide, Pals for Palestine, Mbuani Yi Africa to hold a demonstration outside Leinster House to demand immediate government action on the War in Sudan.
We will hand the government our list of demands, in which we emphasised the urgency to sanction and defund the RSF. Additionally, the demo will have a number of speakers from the Sudanese community and the Irish opposition parties.
Date 18th of December, at 17.30, Leinster House, Kildare Street, Dublin 2
Background: On the 18th of December, a coalition of concerned citizens and members of the Sudanese community will stage a demonstration at the Dáil to highlight the Irish government’s need to go beyond commendation and take concrete action to stop the world’s largest displacement crisis. The aim is to hand in a detailed open letter to Members of the Oireachtas outlining 11 urgent actions required to ensure lasting peace and justice.
The letter calls on the government:
- To provide safe access routes and expand asylum pathways for Sudanese citizens.
- To fund Grassroots Emergency Response Rooms directly through Irish Aid.
- To designate the RSF as a Terrorist Organization and sanction its leaders.
- To demand the UAE withdraw arms shipments and impose sanctions for their complicity in genocide.
- To safeguard the crossing for humanitarian access between Chad and Sudan.
- To support Disarmament and Land Re-farming initiatives to combat the man-made famine.
The situation in Sudan is rapidly deteriorating. The fall of El Fasher in October 2025, following an 18-month siege by the RSF, has led to horrific scenes. Women and girls are facing sexual violence, men and boys are being singled out for execution, and famine-like conditions have been confirmed.
Despite this, the international community has been slow to act. The UAE continues to arm the RSF in exchange for gold, with an official estimate that gold makes up 70 per cent of Sudan’s exports.
Noreldaim Ahmedkagho, the Chairman of the Association of Sudanese Engineers and ICT Professionals in Ireland ASEIT stated: “We want to demand tangible steps from the Irish Government in response to the dire situation in Sudan, it is urgent more than ever to end the suffer in Darfur, we cannot endure having a new generational trauma extending farther to Kordofan, and another separation in Sudan”,
Meanwhile, the death toll continues to rise. Reports estimate that in just three weeks in El-Fasher, 60,000 people were killed—a low estimate. 30 million civilians require urgent humanitarian assistance; this is six times the population of the Republic of Ireland.
Famine-like conditions have been forecasted in 20 areas across the greater Darfur and Kordofan areas by the Famine Review Committee (FRC). Less than 30% of all hospitals in Sudan are functioning, leaving the injured with nowhere to go.
How can we possibly accept that $860 million worth of gold had been extracted during 2024 from RSF-controlled mines in the Darfur region alone to fund a war machine while 30 million people rely on humanitarian aid? The Irish government must use its diplomatic influence to maintain pressure on the perpetrators.
ENDS
Media contact
Noreldaim Ahmedkagho - 0852864646
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Key Quotations
From Yale University Satellite Analysis: “Images circulated show clusters of objects resembling human corpses as well as patches of red-stained soil consistent with blood.”
From Recent Reports: “An estimated 200,000 people have lost their lives – though the direct death toll could be higher. Over 12 million people have been forced to flee their homes.”
On UAE Involvement: “Media outlets are sharing mounting evidence that an estimated 90% of Sudan’s gold goes to the UAE... The UAE is complicit in the genocide in Sudan due to their direct funding of the RSF and support in military equipment.”