Sudan's Sovereign Council ratified U.N. conventions against torture and enforced disappearances Tuesday, after months of delay. 

At a press conference, Minister of Justice Nasreldin Abdelbari confirmed Sudan's ratification to join the 2006 U.N. Conventions for the Protection of All Persons from enforced disappearance and 1984 convention against torture and inhuman punishment. 

Abdelbari said the step is momentous because of Sudan's history of torture and enforced disappearance under the rule of former president Omar al-Bashir.