ICRC spokesperson Farid al-Hamid told the Sudan Tribune that the committee continues to work with the Sudanese Red Crescent to determine the fate of missing people, Anadolu Agency reported.
“The agency’s tracing operations clarified the fate and location of 613 registered missing individuals in the first six months of the year,” he said.
The committee also helped more than 38,500 people separated from their families restore contact with them, according to al-Hamid.
He added that the ICRC trained emergency teams on burying bodies in a way that allows their identities to be determined later.
“In the capital alone, reports indicate more than 20,000 bodies have been recovered and buried without formal records or documentation, leaving families with little certainty over the fate of their kin,” Al-Hamid said.
He said the ICRC is holding bilateral and confidential talks with all parties to the conflict in Sudan to ensure respect for international humanitarian law.
The committee also trained hundreds of officers and armed personnel on international humanitarian law during the first half of this year, al-Hamid said, expressing concern over the continued impact of fighting on civilians.
Since April 2023, Sudan has been gripped by a war between the army and the Rapid Support Forces that has killed tens of thousands of people and displaced around 13 million, according to UN and international estimates.