Khartoum: Sudan has renewed its call on the international community to support its national efforts to rebuild institutions related to the peaceful uses of atomic energy, which witnessed massive, systematic, and widespread vandalization by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) rebels, and to support efforts to restore the ability to provide cancer diagnosis and treatment services. Sudan urged the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to send a technical mission to assess the damage and determine urgent needs and ways to respond to them.
According to Sudan News Agency, this appeal was articulated in a statement delivered by Ambassador Magdi Ahmed Mufaddal, Sudan’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations and International Organizations in Vienna, before the IAEA Board of Governors meetings, which began on Monday, June 9, 2025, and will continue until June 13.
The statement highlighted the extensive destruction of vital institutions that the IAEA helped establish, such as the Atom Hospital, the National Cancer Center at the University of Gezira, Scientific Research Centers, the National Laboratory for Public Health (ASTAC Laboratory), the Sudanese Atomic Energy Commission, and the National Nuclear and Radiological Regulatory Authority. It also listed the significant repercussions of this vandalization on the humanitarian, health, and economic conditions in the country.