The tragedy of the Sudanese war is transnational. The pain so many harbour from Egypt to Chad, mothers mourning loved ones lost to a war that is consuming young people and jeopardising millions of lives.
My relative, Rowya, was brutally abused and murdered a couple of weeks ago. She died after being horribly stabbed and shot at after a torture ordeal by the RSF. She died with her wounds alone in the hospital. Seeing her photo shared is upsetting.
As the Sudanese war enters its second year, 22 million, almost half the country's population need urgent humanitarian aid, more than 10 million are displaced or refugees, and at least 30,000 lost their lives, if not much, much more.
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records largest child displacement in world with ~3 million children forcibly displaced.
Further escalation of war is forcing more children to flee their homes & at risk of violence, abuse & exploitation.
Fighting should stop for children to be safe & well, learn & play.
An editor turns to selling firewood, journalists sell vegetables or clothes, and photo-journalist is selling falafel. These are some of the jobs these journalists had to turn to survive and keep their families alive, after the dailies they worked for ceased existing after the war
I now know of a few people who took the smuggling route across the desert out Sudan to Egypt. These are families with frail and elderly people, children, and pregnant women. People are stuck with high-priced visias to Egypt, which takes weeks to get issued. It's a 5 days trip 👇🏽
عشرات اللاجئين الفارين من الحرب في السودان إلى مصر مقبوض عليهم داخل هناجر (storehouse) خاصة بالجيش المصري في ظروف أقل ما يقال عنها أنها لا إنسانية
#أي_كوز_ندوسو_دوس
#لا_للحرب
Just for the record, the scale of what is happening in Sudan and the number of people in the sit in outside army HQ, is unprecedented. Never before in the country's history since 1956. #اعتصام_القيادة_العامة
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My grandmother would have been 86 today. Here she is standing on the right talking to her colleagues by the library of the University of Khartoum, they were among the first women to join higher education in the late 1940s. Asma Ahmed Al-Bashir 11 September 1933 - 13 May 2016
This clip is going viral on the Sudanese timeline. A dad going to pick up his kids from school, normal. Except, he turned up in RSF uniform and the kids mobbed him chanting Maddaniyah!
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The distance from Khartoum to the 🇪🇬 border crossing is around 920 Km, to Port Sudan is 850 Km via Gerri route or around 1200 Km the Medani way, distance equivalent to London to Berlin or beyond. These are long tiresome journeys on bad roads at a time of war and scarcity.
Today in Halfa, thousands of Sudanese are stranded waiting for a week or more to get Egyptian visas. Some of them want to join their families that have already crossed. They don't know why they are waiting and they are not informed. Authorities, on both sides, need to do sth.
The Sudanese are amazingly, and some would say ridiculously, brave, courageous and proud. For a nation that had more coups than any in Africa, this being the 4th, this is the first time ever that a coup was challenged before it was even announced!
عاجل ‼️ هام ‼️ عاجل ‼️ هام
من شبكة العربية الإخبارية ..مع فيديو
جولة قناة العربية -الحدث داخل منطقة أم درمان القديمة - لأول مرة منذ اندلاع الحرب
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وصل فريق العربية -الحدث لأول مرة إلى داخل المناطق المصنفة بأنها مناطق عمليات عسكرية نشطة بين الجيش
The old palace in Khartoum on the Blue Nile, made infamous by paintings of Charles Gordon making his last stand on the stairway, is gutted. This video shows the fires raging through this historical seat of power for 125 years.
I have been marches in London, by far today's crowd in Whitehall is perhaps the ĺargest Sudanese political gathering the former colonial capital has seen. Standing on the ground between the British ministry of defence and No 10, and the Cenotaph surrounded by Sudanese.
Back in Khartoum, the city is recovering from the shocking events of the 3rd. There is a sense of betrayal about the violence used to desperse the sitin, but there are signs of defiance. Night demos are back and activists moved to offline face2face mobilization
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As today has been dominated by the evacuation of foriegners, diplomats, INGOs etc. and the fleeing if those Sudanese who can. Let's keep in mind Khartoum is practically the largest city in Sudanic Africa across the entire Sahel, a city with 8 to 10 million residents.
This fighting in downtown Khartoum has not just uprooted local residents, but it also raises serious concern over the possible destruction of the Sudanese national archives.This is 150 meters from the National Records Office on Al-Sayid Abdel Rahman road. #انقذوا_دار_الوثائق
Our family home in Omdurman has been a family home for 140 years. My uncle and aunt stayed for a month in this ugly war. They left their home this morning, an hour after that the janjaweed occupied the house.
The sudden abundance of flour in Khartoum after the coup is clear evidence of who has been sabotaging, spoiling and undermining the wellbeing of the Sudanese.
This mysterious new brand/ flour mill that suddenly filled all the shops in
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after weeks of scarcity and only a day after eastern Sudan ports re-open. Where did they crop up from n where was the military hiding these goods?
#SudanCoup
#لا_للانقلاب_العسكري #الردة_مستحيلة
It is impressive that residents of greater Khartoum are organising in emergency coordination groups on SM to coordinate access to medical help, drugs, access to hospitals, doctors and pharmacies, updates shared on safe routes to move, arranging food drops etc.
A drive through downtown Khartoum, heading west to east. From the Khartoum football stadium heading towards the Jackson bus terminal. The extent of the destruction is total.
This pure nonsense. The Rapid Support Forces are not Jihadists. They are a militia that fought with Western-backed allies in Libya and Yemen. They are genocidal, they are a mercenary group, and if you do some research, you will find that they also have ties with Israel.
In Khartoum a three weeks internet blackout means innovative solutions. Sim cards from abroad, heading to public spaces with ADSL Wi-Fi, paying for 15 minute slots of connectivity or using software to break access on publicly or privately owned ADSLs.
#SudanUprising
This time a year ago, I was in Khartoum reporting on the sit in outside the army HQ in Khartoum. The BBC were the first non-Arabic news organization to secure an interview with Burhan. It was for Hard Talk, with Zeinab Badawi
The silence is damning. The fact that this level of violence against unarmed civilians demonstrating in one of Africa's largest cities is not being immediately condemned speaks volumes.
#SudanCoup
Khartoum is a city reeling from a bloody and brutal day. Funerals are underway, wake marquees are being erected and it's residents are mourning the fallen.
#SudanCoup
Still going strong at 1 am outside the military HQ
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and not a single official statement. Reports that a public holiday has been declared from 7 April till 11th. Meanwhile the
@AssociationSd
has called for a general strike tomorrow.
This film captures the spirit of these defiant young men and women fighting on of the most brutal forces in Africa. They see through it all and demand removal of Gen Al-Burhan and Hemeti
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Sudanese heritage from ancient times is being destroyed by the RSF. Footage filmed today by janjaweed thugs who think these are bodies and mummies are "people executed by the keizan" . This appears to be filmed in warehouses and labs of Sudan Museum.
This needs to sink in. Sudanese Doctors Union says only 29 hospitals working in the whole of Sudan, six are the remaining ones in Khartoum. A population of 45 million is left with 29 hospitals at a time of war.
20 years since the Darfur conflict started in 2003. The perpetrators of atrocities there have brought their ways to Khartoum. Army officers who formed and managed the janjaweed are now battling against the janjaweed. It is a case of chickens coming home to roost.
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It's the eve of 29th Ramadan, the residents of Khartoum mark the 4th anniversary of the 2019 massacre, by fleeing the city. Al-Burhan will go down in the annals as the Gen who ordered the bombing of Khartoum and Hemmeti as the one who brought war to the city.
The Council of Arab Tribes in Chad statement: consoled Chadian clans over the death of hundreds of of their sons in a "nonsensical war" driven by the RSF's command "personal greed". It slammed the RSF's exploitation of economic hardship to recruit 1000s of Chadians,
1. The Sudanese war is turning viciously ugly. A widely unreported incident happened a couple of days ago. A SAF soldier was filmed in a crowded neighbourhood street behading a fatally wounded RSF fighter. The fact this heinous crime is carried out in public speaks volumes.
My former teacher and headmaster of
@Comboni_College
, Peter Kiyano was killed by a stray bullet during clashes in Khartoum. A kind man, RIP Ustaz Peter.
Protesters in Port Sudan demand the expulsion of the UAE ambassador to Sudan. This follows open criticism of the UAE senior SAF commanders and claims the Emirates is supplying and supporting the Rapid Support Forces.
Regardless of the outcome of the fighting, the cost of the destruction to
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's weak infrastructure makes the scale of the civilians suffering unimaginable. Hospitals have been targeted, in Khartoum most are out of work, water & power installations are damaged, drug supplies
If there is something you should listen to this weekend, make it this. Azza Aziz,
@KholoodKhair
, and Alex de Waal on the Real Story dissect the war in Sudan.
I spoke to some of the protesters holding a mass sit-in outside the municpal HQ in Nertiti, Jebel Mara in central Darfur today. Their demands are similar to those I heard in Kelma last year. They want security, they want those in charge of the local security services removed.
George Orwell's Animal Farm was probably first serialised as a cartoon in Arabic, on the pages of the Al-Sudan el-Jedeid. The Sudanese economist Sa'ad Eddine Fawzi translated it from English. Date 1946-47
A protest outside the UAE embassy in Khartoum. Protest by families of Sudanese men lured by a rouge security company with promises of working as guards in the UAE, instead they are taken to camps and flown to Libya or Yemen. Company is called Black Shield Security.
What is happening in Sudan is a fresh uprising. This is the revolution of 2021. This is against the outcome of 2019 which brought a joint military-civilian transition. Now, the pro-democracy masses are in a new revolution against Gen Al-Burhan.
More video evidence emerges of the horrors facing those fleeing West Darfur. A bunch of men were forced to lay face down on the scorching earth by these pro-RSF Arab militia men.
هذا الفيدو يوثق انتهاكات قوات الدعم السريع والمليشيات المساندة لها ضد المدنين الذين فروا من ولاية غرب دارفور الجنينة مع بداية حرب ١٥ ابريل ٢٠٢٣م، هؤلاء المدنين حاولوا الهروب الي تشاد تم ايقافهم واجبارهم النوم في الأرض تحت تهديد السلاح، نحمل RSF مسؤلية سلامتهم.
The Sudanese timeline is becoming increasingly combative, offensive and intolerant. Criticisms are harsh, below par, digs left, right and centre. In a moment of deep polarisation, opposition to the war is equated to supporting the RSF! some calm debate and discussion please 🙏🏽
The world has struggled to bring the war to a pause and secure humanitarian routes in the conflict zones. The least is to pressure for safe passage and end the exploitation of those fleeing for dear life.
It is mind boggling how the world is dealing with the RSF. Their track record is known, their previous crimes were labelled a genocide, their mercenary operations are documented, yet the RSF enjoys a legitimacy bestowed on it by the IC that is confusing to say the least!
A satirical peice of fake news about PM Hamdok and Trump is sweeping Sudanese social media. What started as a joke by
@MujtabaaMusaa
quoting a report in the US daily "Gucci Gang" written by the journalist "Lil Wayne", ended up in newspapers in Khartoum. Best prank of the year 😂
He lost his son, the second son he lost since 2018. He also lost a brother. He says, quoting the Tunisian poet Al Shabi, if the people one day choose life then destiny is bound to abide, this is our destiny. He thanks them and steps off, draped in the Sudanese flag.
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If and when this war settles, the Battle of Khartoum will go down innhistory as one of the largest mass theft and looting operations ever to happen. The criminality of the RSF militias, because that is what it is, will be revealed. 80K fighters coming for the loot and war booty.
I worked in
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from 2020 to October 21, one thing I noticed was the calibre of internationals sent to Khartoum, mostly young and inexperienced, well-meaning but naive in dealing with the Sudanese army and the RSF. Narrow tunnel visions and misplaced optimisim in processes.
Across a harsh and cold desert landscape, with smugglers who are not bothered about the lives they are transporting. Many are dying in desert, others are passed from gang to gang, in areas of artisnal mining , meagre resources. They arrive in Aswan, having endured unimaginable 👇🏽
I refuse to even believe this as I translate it!
“RSF looted the National Museum and they’re selling the antiquities in the market for 500 pounds. They sold a stamp from 1842, [so old] the paper was yellow.”
I’ve no words.
#DontMuteUs
#KeepEyesOnSudan
The smuggling of live camels is one of the many unnoticed effects of the war in Sudan. Daily tens of trucks carrying camels go through the borders to Egypt and Libya.
Risks. It is a catastrophe of significant proportions. It could cost upwards of 1500 dollars, and people are desperate. Profiteers line the route, middlemen, gangs & corrupt officials take a cut. This deserves attention. These people are fleeing war, they need safe routes out 👇🏽
Prices of vehicles in Chad have dropped because the markets are flooded with cars looted from Khartoum. A 4x4 Toyota Land Cruiser went from $76 K to 39 K. 27,000 USD drop. Meanwhile, house prices in Njmena are rising, as many loaded with cash from Sudan move to buy in the city.
أصبحت أسعار السيارات في تشاد برخص التراب بعدما فاض السوق التشادي بالسيارات المسروقة من السودان، في مثل هذا التوقيت العام الماضي بلغت قيمة اللاندكروزر ٢٠٢٠ بحوالي ٥٠ مليون فرنك سيفا مايعادل ٧٦ ألف دولار .
أما اليوم فيتم بيعها في أنجمينا بقرابة ٣٩ ألف دولار.
And finally Sudan gets its transitional government, 18 ministerial portfolios named, two yet to be filled. Four women make it to the cabinet, including the foreign minister, Asma Abdalla.
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DeWaal never minced his words, he has watched SAF and the janjaweed for a long time. He understands the fissures between awlad al bahar and awlad al-gharib, understands the history, and knows about the east and west axis versus the north- south dynamic.
At last! the Darfuri rebel leader Abd al-Wahid el-Nur, of the SLA, the only leader not to engage in talks with the transitional administration in Khartoum since Bashir was ousted in April, greeting the Sudanese PM Hamdok in Paris today. One step towards peace.
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@damianmarley
Not sure how much you know of Sudan king, but mi tell ya Tuff Gong's message is alive and kicking in the Sudanese revolution. During the sitin every day there would have been a group of youth sharing and singing Bob's music. Check this video out
My Medani friends feel betrayed by SAF. After Sunday false hopes that SAF pushed back the RSF, the withdrawl of SAF out of town, led many to say Medani was handed over to the RSF. Talk of betrayal and treason. People want Burhan's removal, along with the rest of SAF command.
It looks like an all out urban war is underway in
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. From Nyala, Zalingi and Elfasher in western Darfur to Kassala and El -Gedarif in the east. The army and the RSF are striking at each others camps and bases which incidentally happen to be mostly near residential areas.
The images from North Darfur cause alarm as to what could befall civilians in those areas, especially that some reports suggest the Janjaweed are ethnically targeting Zaghawa villages and settlements.