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...

The woman in the video is the late Hawa al-Tagtaga 💚💙💛. She was arrested multiple times and imprisoned for her anti-colonial activism and music. Although the footage is in B&W, her famous toab first worn here is in the colours of the old Sudanese flag (blue, yellow & green). bsky.app/profile/chri...

Love Gramsci but that "I hate New Year's Day" column of his that always circulates at this time of year is (in my opinion) God awful.

Sudanese labourers excavating wall art (the first depicts the birth of Jesus) from what was Faras cathedral in medieval Nubia, parts of which ended up in the (recently looted) Sudan National Museum.

London yesterday (📸 by Martin Gavin) #Sudan

Tomorrow marks the 7th anniversary of Sudan's December revolution, before it was superseded by another war that separated and scattered millions of people across countless countries and worlds.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 📜

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...

MPs were briefed that 60,000 people killed in 3 weeks is the "low" estimate... www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Rare for me to defend Arab TV but one of the things about being in Cairo is that most Arabic language news channels - eg Aljazeera mubashar, Al Hadath - actually report daily and in-depth on Sudan. And regularly have analysts actually based in Sudan on their news shows.

dick cheney was still alive?????

If you're in London, this documentary is screening tomorrow at Curzon (Bloomsbury): www.curzon.com/films/dochou... bsky.app/profile/note...

There have been years of people ignoring what’s happening in Sudan. The only reason that it’s a news story today is because it’s so bad that you can see the literal bloodshed from the NASA satellites! How dare you center yourself in such a way while people are being raped and killed?!

I reactivated twitter for four days before deactivating again. It wasn't even the direct racism & nazi shit but that as blood and corpses flooded El Fasher, Americans/Brits were doing up "no one is getting called up by HR for posting about Sudan though" - that algorithm rewards sociopaths.

Resistance committees reporting hundreds of unaccompanied young children arriving from El Fasher who lost their families in the last few days. I can't watch survivor testimonies for more than 2 mins but there are so many echoes of the worst and most unforgivable legacies of the previous regime.

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". bsky.app/profile/note...

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...

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.

I wish people had listened to our journalists in El Fasher before they were captured and disappeared, and I wish people had listened to our revolutionaries before they were executed.

$53 (USD) for a single kilogram of rice in El Fasher.....

For those interested, I have been working for quite some time on a bibliography for modern Sudanese history. The PDF is freely available (www.academia.edu/121191857/CBSH_v1_07_24_) and I have also created a Zotero group open to everyone. This is still a work in progress.

🧵 Thread of resources on various aspects of Sudanese history/archival attempts (loosely defined). Will be slowly adding to this throughout the week, focusing on the labour of individuals/smaller scale attempts rather than larger grant-funded institutional ones. Feel free to add.

Trade Union Act 2016 bsky.app/profile/unen...

I do not like the way people are increasingly acting like I'm the weird one for not using ChatGPT.....

Perfect timing ahead of a trip with students later this term to The Story, home of County Durham archives, where Mustapha's photographic images and life story feature as part of the Durham Light Infantry collection. 🗃️📜📷📸

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

Exhibition opening soon! Combining Efforts: 200 Years of Trade Union History explores the development of trade unions since the 1825 Combination Act, through years of struggle, triumph, defeat, and resilience. With TUC Library @londonmetuni.bsky.social @tuc.org.uk www.lse.ac.uk/library/what...

If you can, please join me in donating and also share x bsky.app/profile/bson...

We asked Sudanese people to explain what the war is about. What emerges is clear: there is no such thing as a war about nothing. continent.substack.com/p/is-the-sud...

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.

I'm sorry but given that Sudanese live tweeted and live streamed multiple massacres including the day the RSF took Medani - we saw footage of corpses & people digging mass graves in real-time - I'm actually so tired of any explainer that indirectly suggests we are the reason for the lack of empathy.

I read that Bernard-Henri Levy article on Sudan. I have so many thoughts but..... do you know how much of an OG orientalist you must be to make the country I was born in and spent formative years sound like a mystical alien place to ME??

Gentle reminder that whilst yes, western media is generally shit on Sudan, there are plenty of bilingual Sudanese media outlets that also publish articles in English that you can read. bsky.app/profile/note...

i follow like 5 americans on this app how the hell is my feed so us-centric omg

I wrote this four years ago to mark the 50th anniversary of Sudan's communist massacres. On the immediate aftermath and experiences of those incarcerated in Sudan's infamous Kober prison. www.jadaliyya.com/Details/43128

happy birthday fanon 🎈

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I used to walk past this site on an almost daily basis and play football there as a kid. It's now effectively a cemetery because the risks of reaching formal burial grounds were too high. "To walk any distance was to risk being killed by the constant shelling." sudantribune.com/article302188/

❤️ love today to everyone who has had to bury their father alone in a strange land because of the war, or who hasn't been able to bury them or locate their remains because of the war, or who hasn't been able to visit their grave because of the war ❤️

Returned to work this week after being on strike for weeks and........

If you're in Berlin next week, there's a screening of this documentary by displaced Sudanese filmmakers which premiered at the Sundance Festival earlier this year & follows five residents during the war (I haven't seen it yet but want to www.goethe.de/prj/gex/en/v...). m.youtube.com/watch?v=OMyt...

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 🌹

This is also screening tomorrow in London at the Barbican - highly recommend if you can make it (link: www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...) bsky.app/profile/note...

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.

If you told me 2 years ago this war would still be raging, that both sides of my family would be violently displaced, that we'd bury loved ones around the globe, or people would dig graves in their backyards, of deaths at the border, that corpses would become commonplace on streets we used roam...

If you're in New York towards the end of this month, there's a screening of this lovely film about four Sudanese filmmakers and their attempts to revive cinema in Sudan whilst navigating countless barriers from security services ( www.bam.org/film/2025/su...) m.youtube.com/watch?v=hIvU...

Next week the UK Labour government will host a conference that includes the UAE and others who have supported and legitimised the RSF as it committed these atrocities to discuss how to "resolve" the war in Sudan. bsky.app/profile/amne...

Universities transformed into torture chambers in Khartoum. www.france24.com/en/live-news...

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.