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Nick Coghlan @nicholascoghlan.bsky.social · 19h

I don't know whether to be relieved or shocked - turns out it has been bureaucrats rather than the Minister who've been dragging their feet on the infamously sluggish 🇨🇦 humanitarian visa programme for #Sudan. An important expose; poses a serious question www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...

Former immigration minister rejected officials’ advice to shelve Sudan humanitarian program

Officials argued that bringing Sudanese out of civil war and into Canada could affect government’s immigration levels plan

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Nick Coghlan @nicholascoghlan.bsky.social · 1d

📚💙 It's like fishing in a pond where you're not sure there are any fish...Sent out a copy of "Under Wide & Starry Skies" to a New Zealand #sailing mag 6 months ago. Silence. Then a random Google search last week shows: "A remarkable work...an inspirational book" 😃 www.boatingnz.co.nz/2025/10/book...

Book reviews: A selection of new titles recommended by Boating New Zealand

Under wide and starry skies – 50 sailing destinations in seas less travelled By Nicholas Coghlan – Adlard Coles Do you know of the fine anchorages in the Fernando de Noronha Archipelago, off the north...

www.boatingnz.co.nz

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Nick Coghlan @nicholascoghlan.bsky.social · 2d

Why Gaza may be easier to fix than #Sudan . "For all its horror and complications, Gaza presented a more amenable set of circumstances: near-total alignment between key regional players. Sudan presents the inverse of these conditions." responsiblestatecraft.org/sudan-el-fas...

Sudan's bloody war is immune to Trump's art of the deal

El Fasher's fall exposes the failure of Washington’s reliance on regional power brokers — many who are directly involved — to end the conflict

responsiblestatecraft.org

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Nick Coghlan @nicholascoghlan.bsky.social · 2d

Coming up on Monday in Ottawa, 🇨🇦. The House of Commons Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development holds a hearing on #Sudan. Anyone can tune in. www.ourcommons.ca/committees/e...

SDIR - Human Rights Situation in Sudan

www.ourcommons.ca

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Nick Coghlan @nicholascoghlan.bsky.social · 3d

📚💙 "A remarkable work offering vicarious travel...a superlative travelogue.." Check out the full review of Under Wide and Starry Skies- Fifty #Sailing Destinations in Seas Less Travelled: www.boatingnz.co.nz/2025/10/book...

Book reviews: A selection of new titles recommended by Boating New Zealand

Under wide and starry skies – 50 sailing destinations in seas less travelled By Nicholas Coghlan – Adlard Coles Do you know of the fine anchorages in the Fernando de Noronha Archipelago, off the north...

www.boatingnz.co.nz

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Nick Coghlan @nicholascoghlan.bsky.social · 5d

🇨🇦 and #Darfur: we can do (a lot) better. www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...

Canada urged to take stronger action on Sudan as killings escalate

Anita Anand’s vague statement on the civilian massacres in Darfur is an example of Ottawa’s lack of interest in the conflict, critics say

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Nick Coghlan @nicholascoghlan.bsky.social · 5d

A blunt statement from 🇨🇦's opposition NDP, calling for more robust Canadian action on #Sudan, especially wrt ostensible sanctions-busting by Cdn-owned Streit (armoured car manufacturer). heathermcpherson.ndp.ca/news/heather...

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Nick Coghlan @nicholascoghlan.bsky.social · 6d

#Sudan #Darfur "The pace of killing can only be compared to that of the Rwanda genocide in 1994" www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...

Signs of latest massacres in Darfur are visible in satellite imagery

Analysis concludes paramilitary soldiers are conducting mass killings in house-to-house operations

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Nick Coghlan @nicholascoghlan.bsky.social · 8d

Just as ceasefire talks collapse in 🇺🇸, the RSF looks to have made a major advance into El Fasher, #Sudan. Brace for atrocities. sudantribune.com/article/3064...

Sudan's RSF says it seized key army base in El Fasher - Sudan Tribune

October 26, 2025 (EL FASHER) – The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) announced on Sunday it had taken complete control of the 6th Infantry Division command in El Fasher, the Sudanese army’s main base in Nort...

sudantribune.com

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Nick Coghlan @nicholascoghlan.bsky.social · 9d

A reminder that it was #OTD 4 yrs ago that Gen Abdel Fattah al-Burhan launched a coup in #Sudan with the support of the RSF, saying that the military's agreement with the (civilian) transitional sovereign council threatened the country's "peace and unity". edition.cnn.com/2021/10/25/a...

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Nick Coghlan @nicholascoghlan.bsky.social · 11d

An interesting statistical analysis of which countries talked about which of three major world crises (Israel/Gaza; Ukraine; #Sudan) at the UN this year. 🇨🇦's silence on #Sudan is disappointing. www.crisisgroup.org/global/how-s...

How the Spotlight on Peace and Security Issues Shifted at the 2025 UN General Assembly | International Crisis Group

The speeches at the UN General Assembly this year focused their foreign policy attention on Gaza, Ukraine, Sudan and UN reform. Crisis Group experts analyse the issues world leaders picked out and wha...

www.crisisgroup.org

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Nick Coghlan @nicholascoghlan.bsky.social · 11d

While the proceeds from gold-mining are fuelling the major parties to the #Sudan conflict, the actual process of mining is killing people too. www.darfur24.com/en/2025/10/2...

Protests erupt against mining companies in South Kordofan - Darfur24 News Website

Talodi, October 23 (Darfur24) Hundreds of residents in Talodi County, South Kordofan State, staged demonstrations on Wednesday to protest the continued use of cyanide by gold mining companies operatin...

www.darfur24.com

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Nick Coghlan @nicholascoghlan.bsky.social · 11d

📚💙 Overlooked again by the Nobel Committee, but still hopeful for the Sailor's Nobel.... 😀

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Nick Coghlan @nicholascoghlan.bsky.social · 16d

Happier days in Khartoum, #Sudan in 2001 - launching our 50-year-old newly-painted Khartoum One Design, Canada One. One the right: the Blue Nile #Sailing Club's "boat boys", Farouk and Mohammed Bahar.

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Nick Coghlan @nicholascoghlan.bsky.social · 16d

All in Chapter #41....https://www.bloomsbury.com/ca/under-wide-and-starry-skies-9781399413756/

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Nick Coghlan @nicholascoghlan.bsky.social · 16d

💙📚After six years in exile, Napoleon died on the South Atlantic island of St Helena in 1821 and was buried here. #OTD in 1840, his reputation rehabilitated, his body was repatriated to France and now lies in monumental splendour at Les Invalides (Paris).1/2

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Nick Coghlan @nicholascoghlan.bsky.social · 17d

For years it's been a sad but open secret - environmental controls on #SouthSudan's now decrepit oil infrastructure are all but non-existent. With tragic results. www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

Severe Birth Defects Plague South Sudan’s Oil Fields

In 2011, Petronas was warned its South Sudan oil wells may be causing congenital disease. Mercedes-Benz, partner in its Formula 1 team, arranged meetings with the company to press for answers. Over a ...

www.bloomberg.com

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Nick Coghlan @nicholascoghlan.bsky.social · 18d

#Sudan: "...the SAF, the RSF, and their allied militias have, to varying degrees, committed widespread atrocities against children, including killings, sexual violence, forced military recruitment, and the destruction of essential infrastructure such as hospitals and schools." t.co/fblnperAzW

https://raoulwallenbergcentre.org/images/reports/war-on-children-a-world-complicit-Independent-Legal-Analysis.docx.pdf

t.co

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Nick Coghlan @nicholascoghlan.bsky.social · 19d

📚💙#OTD in 1815, the defeated Emperor Napoleon arrives at St Helena to begin his exile, writing in his diary: "It is not an attractive place, I should have done better to remain in Egypt." One of 50 locations featured in "Under Wide and Starry Skies."

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Nick Coghlan @nicholascoghlan.bsky.social · 19d

500 days into the siege, #Sudan's El Fasher is considered "uninhabitable." www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Thousands trapped in El Fasher siege on ‘edge of survival’, says report

The city – the Sudanese army’s last stronghold in the west of the country – has withstood more than 500 days of attacks by paramilitary RSF

www.theguardian.com

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MSF Sea @msfsea.bsky.social · 22d

📢MSF is hiring a Deputy Logistics Coordinator to support Logistics Coordinator in Technical and Supply Chain Management.

Apply here 👉 https://searchandrescue.msf.org/jobs/deputy-logistics-coordinator.html

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Nick Coghlan @nicholascoghlan.bsky.social · 23d

📚💙 Under Wide and Starry Skies: #sailing north inside the Great Barrier Reef 🇦🇺, sunrise.

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Nick Coghlan @nicholascoghlan.bsky.social · 23d

📚💙To Fulford Village Hall on a dark & foggy evening, to hear the legendary @kenroth.bsky.social, ex-Director of @hrw.org . What a life well-spent - and an inspiration to me throughout my career! The night ended with a well-deserved standing ovation from the awed audience of 200. 🙏👏

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Nick Coghlan @nicholascoghlan.bsky.social · 25d

#Sudan: "In a conflict that has already seen both sides commit numerous war crimes... the apparent use of a common industrial chemical as a weapon creates a disturbing precedent." www.hrw.org/news/2025/10...

Disturbing Reports of Sudan’s Military Using Chlorine Gas

The United States government sanctioned General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, the head of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and Sudan’s de facto head of state, in January 2025, alleging that the SAF had used ...

www.hrw.org

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Nick Coghlan @nicholascoghlan.bsky.social · 25d

It'd a long shot but I'm pleased to be in such distinguished company! #sailing #books

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