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So happy to see @JuliaJoerin's & my #Sudan @mict_intl teamwork with @Zinabsalih, @shinger70 et al. for David Chipperfield at @la_Biennale!!!

Sudan, already deeply food insecure with widespread famine, is among the most affected by fertilizer supply disruptions and rising costs because of the Iran war. What, if anything, is Washington doing to acknowledge and mitigate that? africanews.com/2026/03/25/foo…

Great to see this year’s ⁦@ChathamHouse⁩ prize being awarded to #Sudan’s Emergency Response Rooms. Volunteers are helping their own neighbourhoods in the face of war and oppression in the Sudanese tradition of mutual support.

Trump's vision for securing Hormuz by escorting ships through the straits is typical of current geopolitics: It is more meme than plan. The "armed convoy" trope is in fact just an echo of the "tanker war" of the 80s, rather than a realistic option for today. 🧵

There’s even a Gamal Abdel Nasser street in São Tomé pretty much everywhere in Africa you find a street honouring the late Egyptian leader from an era when Egypt still had an active foreign policy for Africa (not just Eastern Africa)

This news hasn't been corroborated. Abu Lulu absolutely deserves to be held accountable, as do his bosses, for their live-streamed atrocities. But the idea that SAF, who protect ICC-indictee Bashir & embrace OG Janaweed leader Musa Hilal, are interested in JUSTICE is ludicrous.

📣 After two years of research, @HRL_YaleSPH released this morning👇first study in history to quantitatively prove an intentional campaign of forced starvation via 🛰️ data analysis. Read @guardian for how our team showed RSF’s intent to starve El Fasher: theguardian.com/global-develop…

“I cannot accept that it is over. In the most difficult of circumstances, facing famine and destitution, people have banded together.” Joshua Craze on Sudan, with photographs by Salih Basheer: bostonreview.net/articles/the-w…

Please share this letter from the Society for the Study of the Sudans, @SSSUK_17, calling on the UK government to lift the visa ban on Sudanese students. sssuk.org/node/255

Searing piece on the human toll of the siege and subsequent massacre of El Fasher for the survivors and @HRL_YaleSPH team that watched the killing from above by @shepardm and @thewalrus. Must read journalism 👏

Three or four months after the end of most harvests, Sudan and South Sudan food security situation very bleak: North Darfur and South Kordofan facing the greatest measured difficulty.

Despite the UAE 🇦🇪 being struck repeatedly today by missiles from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) 🇮🇷, it has not halted the flow of its suspicious cargo flights to Africa.

READ THIS! Superb article from @3arabawy on the colonial origins of the Sudanese army, an institution which survives by reproducing the racialized fragmentation of the colonial state. One of the best accounts of the army I've ever read! + 3arabawy.substack.com/p/egypt-empire…

How a UN expert proved the RSF committed genocide in Sudan's el-Fasher. Interesting look at the investigation that went into making the genocide determination middleeasteye.net/news/sudan-un-…

Nice report from @TheSentry_Org "Dubai Properties Linked to Hemedti" thesentry.org/reports/hemedt…

If the other film artists and porducers had any backbone they would all pull out of #Berlinale until their colleagues from Sudan get their visa... That should be the mere minimum of a political stance. We don't participate in an event, where politics decides who can join

New scandal at #Berlinale. After Wim Wenders refused to comment on Israel/Palestine and requested the Berlinale to stay out of politics, now foreign office added next scandal, refusing visas for Sudanese filmmakers. A #Berlinale in Fortress Europe is not possible screendaily.com/news/acclaimed…

The second issue with the Berlin Film Fest that wants to "not be political" its Sudanese film makers were rejected for visas, for a festival they have participated as JUDGES on before 😒

In Sudan and South Sudan, militias have taken over rural governance and resource extraction. The war in South Sudan is widening: since the start of 2026 it has displaced almost 300000 people across greater Upper Nile +

If you want a sneak peek, read this great article from @romandeckert about how German arms shaped Sudanese wars of today rosalux.de/en/news/id/537… +

The latest issue of the Society for the Study of the Sudans journal is out, and in it, another great article from @romandeckert on the hidden history of Germany in Sudan's long wars sssuk.org +