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They finally made it, snow, ice, blisters and all 🥹💛. More than 900 miles walked to illustrate the long paths to safety that so many displaced Sudanese have had to go through and to support Sudanese children in Chad. Thanks everyone for sharing/supporting ❤️
January 21, 2026 at 2:49 PM
They finally made it, snow, ice, blisters and all 🥹💛. More than 900 miles walked to illustrate the long paths to safety that so many displaced Sudanese have had to go through and to support Sudanese children in Chad. Thanks everyone for sharing/supporting ❤️
Thanks to everyone who shared and donated to this both on here and Twitter (I'm still calling it that) where it somehow went viral despite that app otherwise being cursed. They smashed their original target and have upped their goal as a result, and will finish their long walk tomorrow in Scotland 💛
January 20, 2026 at 8:18 PM
Thanks to everyone who shared and donated to this both on here and Twitter (I'm still calling it that) where it somehow went viral despite that app otherwise being cursed. They smashed their original target and have upped their goal as a result, and will finish their long walk tomorrow in Scotland 💛
These two amazing South Sudanese friends - Giel Malual and John Kuei - are walking the length of the UK in freezing weather (set off on 23 Dec) to raise money for displaced Sudanese children in refugee camps in Chad. Link here you're able to support and/or repost: www.gofundme.com/f/the-long-w...
January 4, 2026 at 7:40 PM
These two amazing South Sudanese friends - Giel Malual and John Kuei - are walking the length of the UK in freezing weather (set off on 23 Dec) to raise money for displaced Sudanese children in refugee camps in Chad. Link here you're able to support and/or repost: www.gofundme.com/f/the-long-w...
I'm too lazy to write a thread but she's got a section on Wikipedia for those interested in reading more about her. Some other photos of her: (she's the one on the right in the B&W photo with Oum Kalthoum), & still wearing those independence flag colours half a century later.
January 1, 2026 at 8:26 PM
I'm too lazy to write a thread but she's got a section on Wikipedia for those interested in reading more about her. Some other photos of her: (she's the one on the right in the B&W photo with Oum Kalthoum), & still wearing those independence flag colours half a century later.
Tomorrow marks the 7th anniversary of Sudan's December revolution, before it was superseded by another war that separated and scattered millions of people across countless countries and worlds. Will slowly be posting readings on the uprising here, focusing first on those by Sudanese 🧵
December 18, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Tomorrow marks the 7th anniversary of Sudan's December revolution, before it was superseded by another war that separated and scattered millions of people across countless countries and worlds. Will slowly be posting readings on the uprising here, focusing first on those by Sudanese 🧵
Scanning today 📜
December 17, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Scanning today 📜
This article captures a phenomenon that's not uncommon but hasn't really been covered in a lot of analysis on the war: young former revolutionaries who marched against the army 6 years ago joining the army or aligned group since the war.
"From revolutionary to soldier":
3ayin.com/en/albarabin...
"From revolutionary to soldier":
3ayin.com/en/albarabin...
December 15, 2025 at 3:00 PM
This article captures a phenomenon that's not uncommon but hasn't really been covered in a lot of analysis on the war: young former revolutionaries who marched against the army 6 years ago joining the army or aligned group since the war.
"From revolutionary to soldier":
3ayin.com/en/albarabin...
"From revolutionary to soldier":
3ayin.com/en/albarabin...
Never told him this when he was alive but realising how much everything I've written is simultaneously about my father, and also very deliberately not about my father. Even though I avoided writing about experiences of imprisoned minors, he/their ghosts still emerge in the stories of others.
November 23, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Never told him this when he was alive but realising how much everything I've written is simultaneously about my father, and also very deliberately not about my father. Even though I avoided writing about experiences of imprisoned minors, he/their ghosts still emerge in the stories of others.
These and other Sudanese media have been reporting closely on the fall of El Fasher. Please stop saying "nobody" is reporting on Sudan - our journalists and others risking their lives on the ground are not "nobody".
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October 29, 2025 at 8:06 PM
These and other Sudanese media have been reporting closely on the fall of El Fasher. Please stop saying "nobody" is reporting on Sudan - our journalists and others risking their lives on the ground are not "nobody".
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From El Fasher resistance committees. I don't have space to translate it all but:
"Today the city has fallen but it's dignity remains. The bodies are gone but it's spirit remains, soaring over the walls and streets, guarding what remains... every stone bears witness that [we] did not surrender...
"Today the city has fallen but it's dignity remains. The bodies are gone but it's spirit remains, soaring over the walls and streets, guarding what remains... every stone bears witness that [we] did not surrender...
October 28, 2025 at 6:14 PM
From El Fasher resistance committees. I don't have space to translate it all but:
"Today the city has fallen but it's dignity remains. The bodies are gone but it's spirit remains, soaring over the walls and streets, guarding what remains... every stone bears witness that [we] did not surrender...
"Today the city has fallen but it's dignity remains. The bodies are gone but it's spirit remains, soaring over the walls and streets, guarding what remains... every stone bears witness that [we] did not surrender...
El Fasher resistance committees reporting that large numbers of volunteers in community kitchens were martyred as they tried to help civilians amidst fighting. This comes on the back of mass captures and executions by the RSF reported in the last 24 hours since the RSF captured the city.
October 27, 2025 at 3:50 PM
El Fasher resistance committees reporting that large numbers of volunteers in community kitchens were martyred as they tried to help civilians amidst fighting. This comes on the back of mass captures and executions by the RSF reported in the last 24 hours since the RSF captured the city.
Two initiatives digitising Sudanese music, each with a collection of hundreds of digitised old Sudanese songs.
1. Waves of Sudan (YouTube: m.youtube.com/@wavesofsudan)
2. Sudan Tapes Archive (SoundCloud: m.soundcloud.com/sudantapesar...)
1. Waves of Sudan (YouTube: m.youtube.com/@wavesofsudan)
2. Sudan Tapes Archive (SoundCloud: m.soundcloud.com/sudantapesar...)
October 20, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Two initiatives digitising Sudanese music, each with a collection of hundreds of digitised old Sudanese songs.
1. Waves of Sudan (YouTube: m.youtube.com/@wavesofsudan)
2. Sudan Tapes Archive (SoundCloud: m.soundcloud.com/sudantapesar...)
1. Waves of Sudan (YouTube: m.youtube.com/@wavesofsudan)
2. Sudan Tapes Archive (SoundCloud: m.soundcloud.com/sudantapesar...)
Elnour - online collection of hundreds of digitised vintage Sudan photographs by various Sudanese photographers. www.elnour.org/photographers/
October 17, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Elnour - online collection of hundreds of digitised vintage Sudan photographs by various Sudanese photographers. www.elnour.org/photographers/
V short notice, but this film on Sudanese & South Sudanese refugees & asylum seekers in Morocco & Libya is screening later today in E. London. Funds raised go towards Captain Support Network UK, whose work supports those in prison due to govt's hostile policies.
www.genesiscinema.co.uk/event/101321
www.genesiscinema.co.uk/event/101321
September 25, 2025 at 4:17 PM
V short notice, but this film on Sudanese & South Sudanese refugees & asylum seekers in Morocco & Libya is screening later today in E. London. Funds raised go towards Captain Support Network UK, whose work supports those in prison due to govt's hostile policies.
www.genesiscinema.co.uk/event/101321
www.genesiscinema.co.uk/event/101321
Maps from an old Sudanese union booklet (publication Khartoum 1950s) on colonialism in Africa (reposting from my 🐦).
Left: European settlements in Africa before the Berlin conference, 1884.
Right: Countries represented at Bandung, 1955.
Left: European settlements in Africa before the Berlin conference, 1884.
Right: Countries represented at Bandung, 1955.
August 10, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Maps from an old Sudanese union booklet (publication Khartoum 1950s) on colonialism in Africa (reposting from my 🐦).
Left: European settlements in Africa before the Berlin conference, 1884.
Right: Countries represented at Bandung, 1955.
Left: European settlements in Africa before the Berlin conference, 1884.
Right: Countries represented at Bandung, 1955.
happy birthday fanon 🎈
July 20, 2025 at 9:19 PM
happy birthday fanon 🎈
Returned to work this week after being on strike for weeks and........
May 9, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Returned to work this week after being on strike for weeks and........
(We don't talk about the other film called Khartoum/aka the-probably-inebriated-throughout-filming-Laurence-Olivier-in-blackface-one)
May 9, 2025 at 12:15 PM
(We don't talk about the other film called Khartoum/aka the-probably-inebriated-throughout-filming-Laurence-Olivier-in-blackface-one)
Vision of the tomb - El-Salahi, 1965.
May 5, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Vision of the tomb - El-Salahi, 1965.
As with every May Day, to the waged and unwaged of Sudan, who did and continue to do the work of caring, evacuating, healing, transporting, cooking and feeding as the bombs fell, throughout it all 🌹
May 1, 2025 at 1:30 PM
As with every May Day, to the waged and unwaged of Sudan, who did and continue to do the work of caring, evacuating, healing, transporting, cooking and feeding as the bombs fell, throughout it all 🌹
36 years ago today the trade unionist and communist Ali Fadul was tortured to death in a ghost house for organising a strike by the Sudanese doctors' union against the military government. Military doctors wrote malaria as cause of death despite visible trauma to his skull.
April 22, 2025 at 2:47 PM
36 years ago today the trade unionist and communist Ali Fadul was tortured to death in a ghost house for organising a strike by the Sudanese doctors' union against the military government. Military doctors wrote malaria as cause of death despite visible trauma to his skull.
April 2, 2025 at 3:10 PM
A video recorded by Sudan Tribune yesterday that shows the sheer scale of looting of Sudan National Museum. There are artifacts that have survived every plague, invasion, and occupation for millennia and predate the birth of Christ that have not survived this war.
March 25, 2025 at 11:52 PM
A video recorded by Sudan Tribune yesterday that shows the sheer scale of looting of Sudan National Museum. There are artifacts that have survived every plague, invasion, and occupation for millennia and predate the birth of Christ that have not survived this war.
One of my favourite artworks from Sudan's 2018-19 uprising. The Arabic writing translates to "A woman's place is the resistance" (by A. Satir, 2019).
March 8, 2025 at 6:28 PM
One of my favourite artworks from Sudan's 2018-19 uprising. The Arabic writing translates to "A woman's place is the resistance" (by A. Satir, 2019).