the content of the Report as well as the limited oral answers and information
given during the presentation of the Report. Finally, it provides
Recommendations taking into account the very limited dialogue that ensued
from the examination of the Report.
Part II: The Positive Factors
The African Commission:
6. Welcomes the presentation of the Fourth and Fifth Periodic Report of
Sudan in accordance with Article 62 of the African Charter which conforms in
format and presentation to the African Commission’s Guidelines on State
Reporting.
7. Commends Sudan for preparing, submitting and defending the Report
given the difficult political circumstances the country finds itself in.
8. Notes that Sudan is one of the few states which are up-to-date with its
Report.
9.Commends Sudan for the quality of the Report, which was easy to read.
10. Commends Sudan for taking steps to implement a key Recommendation
of the African Commission’s Concluding Observations of the Third Periodic
Report of Sudan, which was presented at the Forty-Fifth Ordinary Session,
held from 13 to 27 May 2009, in Banjul, The Gambia, that is, the improved
security in the Darfur region.
11. Particularly congratulates Sudan for the peaceful conduct of the
referendum, following which led to the creation of the State of South Sudan
on 9 July 2011 and which were declared free and fair by national and
international observers.
12. Welcomes the establishment of a National Human Rights Commission.
13. Further commends Sudan for making efforts to improve primary health
care particularly its programmes on malaria control.
14. Commends Sudan for making primary and secondary education free and
for having a special illiteracy eradication scheme.
15. Commends Sudan for ratifying international and regional human rights
instruments.
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