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Nick Coghlan
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Recovering Cdn diplomat (posted in Mexico, Colombia, Sudan, Pakistan, South Africa & South Sudan). Sails, writes books, treks; opinionated on both Sudans. Home is Salt Spring Island BC. Sailing blog www.bosunbird.com Also at (X) @NicholasCoghlan
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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
📚💙 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
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
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
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...
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...
📚💙 Overlooked again by the Nobel Committee, but still hopeful for the Sailor's Nobel.... 😀
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.
All in Chapter #41....https://www.bloomsbury.com/ca/under-wide-and-starry-skies-9781399413756/
💙📚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
#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
📚💙#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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📢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
📚💙 Under Wide and Starry Skies: #sailing north inside the Great Barrier Reef 🇦🇺, sunrise.
📚💙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. 🙏👏
It'd a long shot but I'm pleased to be in such distinguished company! #sailing #books