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eddiethomas88.bsky.social @eddiethomas88.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Great research skills and reflection piece from Anna Sebit, one of the most sensitive researchers and interviewers I've ever met!
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Centre for Statecraft & National Security @csns-uk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
What happens when you ask people about their traumatic experiences? Researcher Anna Adiyo Sebit – who interviewed 134 people in 7 villages in South Sudan – describes how she managed the blurred lines between research, people’s daily lives, and her own mental health. csns.uk/2026/09/29/l...
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Pause the Recording: Lessons Learned from the XCEPT Interviews in South Sudan - CSNS | Centre for Statecraft & National Security
Anna Sebit describes her experience conducting interviews on behalf of the XCEPT programme in South Sudan. She describes the reality of speaking to people about difficult topics, ranging from family h...
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eddiethomas88.bsky.social @eddiethomas88.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Latest from acjps.org - Diqris Prison, just outside Nyala, South #Darfur is holding 13,000 people in severely overcrowded conditions, with almost no food +
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African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies – ACJPS | المركز الافريقي لدراسات العدالة و السلام
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caatuk.bsky.social @caatuk.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Tomorrow marks 11 years since the Saudi-led coalition began their brutal assault on Yemen. More than 377,000 people were killed. Today, the UK continues to support US-Israeli attacks on Yemen. 🗓️ 26th March ⏰ 6:30pm 📍 Downing Street caat.org.uk/events/yemen...
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eddiethomas88.bsky.social @eddiethomas88.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
20% of Lebanon's population has been displaced. Israeli attacks threaten specific religious groups, and when they're told to flee, the places they run to fear that bombs will follow them. And about a quarter of them are older or disabled. That's when it gets harder
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eddiethomas88.bsky.social @eddiethomas88.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Latest in Atar: Food aid volume is declining in Sudan. Food aid provides a few kilos of food a year to target groups. It's not food aid, but old ideals of solidarity, inscribed into old production systems, which are keeping Sudan alive. atarnetwork.com?p=22340&utm_...
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Keeping Sudan alive: When aid falls short, solidarity feeds Sudan - أتر
How much food aid does Sudan receive? Each year between 2016 and 2023, Sudan received between 500 million and 1 billion US dollars in humanitarian assistance. After the outbreak of the current war, th...
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eddiethomas88.bsky.social @eddiethomas88.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
READ THIS! Superb article from @3arabawy.substack.com on the Sudanese army's colonial origins. The army survives by reproducing the racialized fragmentations pioneered by the colonial state. One of the best accounts of the army I've ever read! + 3arabawy.substack.com/p/egypt-empire
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notes on sudan @notesonsudan.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Rendition of the anticolonial love poem written by Khalil Farah (the name 'Azza' used as a replacement for Sudan to evade detection by the colonial government). Happy Valentine's Day ❤️‍🩹
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Meanwhile, the Australian government consolidates its commercial links with this merchant of death and state terror, Palantir. #auspol
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Syria Notes @syrianotes.org · 14/02/2026
Syrian authorities have begun evacuating al-Hol camp of Syrians. They are being transferred to a temporary camp in Aleppo in preparation for their return to their areas of origin. Only Iraqi families remain in the camp, awaiting repatriation to Iraq… — Zain al-Abidin x.com/i/status/202...
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Yesterday upwards of 300 million people across India held a national strike. Numerous unions and farmers' groups flooded the streets, shutting down large segments of the economy. One of the key demands was a withdrawal from the trade deal struck with the Trump administration.
a street flooded with thousands of marchers.
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eddiethomas88.bsky.social @eddiethomas88.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
The Africa Centre for Justice and Peace Studies just published this report of two courts in Sudan sentencing women to death for adultery acjps.org/publications/s udanese-courts-sentence-two-women-to-death-by-stoning-for-adultery-despite-international-obligations +
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eddiethomas88.bsky.social @eddiethomas88.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
The latest issue of the Society for the Study of the Sudans journal is out, and in it, another great article from @romandeckert.bsky.social on the hidden history of Germany in Sudan's long wars sssuk.org +
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Po-LINA-tergeist 👻 لينا @agirlcalledlina.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Greens will soon enough replace Labour as the party of choice for some trade unions
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Palestine Action activists cleared of aggravated burglary at Israeli [weapons] factory All six were acquitted of aggravated burglary and jurors found Ms Rajwani, Ms Rogers and Mr Devlin not guilty of violent disorder. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
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Palestine Action activists cleared of aggravated burglary at Israeli factory
Prosecutors said the six defendants were members of the now-banned group Palestine Action
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sasha baker @sasha98.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
After 17 months in prison, 6 Palestine Action members have been cleared of all charges over an alleged raid on Elbit Systems. What an embarassment for the government and their expansion of 'counter-terror' measures. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Palestine Action protesters not guilty of defence firm burglary
The group are cleared of aggravated burglary over the alleged raid at an Elbit Systems warehouse.
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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Muhamad Majadla (ch12, Israel) reports that Palestinian returnees were "offered flights to third countries as an alternative to going back to Gaza".
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Abu Aardvark @abuaardvark.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Fascinating guest post on @3arabawy.substack.com blog about the surveillance infrastructure of Egypt’s repressive state. 3arabawy.substack.com/p/inside-the...
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Inside the Surveillance Apparatus
Egypt Security Sector Report
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Philippa Matthews @pippa-matt.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Our #liver #health project ‘MoLo’ for the #Mongolian Community in #London: #education, assessment for #diabetes, metabolic liver disease #MASLD, #HIV & viral #hepatitis, & linkage to care. Huge team effort with brilliant engagement. @who.int @crick.ac.uk @ucl.ac.uk #HBV #HCV #LiverSky #MedSky 🧪🇲🇳
MoLo project team photo by the University College London inclusion health outreach van with the Mongolian Community Organisation hosting the project. Team members set up in advance for point of care testing Kit for point of care testing for HIV, HBV, HCV and syphilis
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
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Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
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William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Still on!
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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Today is the 4th anniversary of the worst ever tragedy in the Channel. At least 27 men, women & children drowned in the freezing water, & 4 more have never been found. Since then, neither we nor the French have done a thing to offer people in this situation with real solutions.
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 20/11/2025
#OtD 20 Nov 2013 Syrian anarchist Omar Aziz was arrested by dictator Bashar al-Assad's secret police. Aziz helped distribute supplies in beseiged communities and co-founded the first directly democratic local council in Barzeh. He later died in custody stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9317...
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
"A Chinese immigrant was found dead in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention, with his hands and feet tied behind him, an attorney has alleged." www.newsweek.com/ice-detainee...
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Man detained by ICE found dead, hanging with hands and feet tied—attorney
The Chinese national died in Pennsylvania in August, but his family's requests for answers from DHS have gone unmet.
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Of the twenty-six who sat silently in protest of the ban, only eight were arrested… Police said that the stations in Cornwall did not have a large enough capacity to hold the number who had defied the ban. In other terms, the police force had been overwhelmed cobblestonemedia.co.uk/2025/11/18/d...
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Devon and Cornwall Police overwhelmed by the number of protesters defying ban on Palestine Action. – Cobblestone Media
Today, twenty-six people defied the ban on Palestine Action outside of Truro Cathedral, Cornwall, by holding signs that read "I oppose genocide, I support Palestine Action." This action was part of a ...
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Paul Gauguin @gauguin.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Van Gogh Painting Sunflowers botfrens.com/collections/44/content…
Van Gogh Painting Sunflowers
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The Continent @thecontinent.org · 07/11/2025
All Protocol Observed Welcome to Issue 219 of The Continent Protests, an internet blackout, and deadly force marked Tanzania’s Election Day. Once online again, 37 readers shared what they witnessed. Read their stories: bit.ly/219_TC
The cover of The Continent, dated 8 November 2025 (Issue 219), bears the headline “Tanzania’s darkest week” and features a striking political cartoon by Gado that echoes Honoré Daumier’s 1831 caricature Gargantua.
At the top, the masthead appears in bold black letters on a beige background. Below it, the illustration dominates the page. It shows a woman seated on a throne-like chair, drawn to resemble Tanzania’s leader. Her mouth is open wide, and a long wooden ramp extends from her mouth, down which small, faceless figures carry large sacks labeled “Corruption,” “Incompetence,” “Fear,” and “Election Fraud.” They march upward to feed these vices into her mouth, while behind them, a long line of weary people stretches toward the horizon, waiting their turn.
To the left stands a sign reading “Abductions”, beside a huge pile of skulls — a chilling symbol of death and repression. Below, masked soldiers with rifles shoot civilians on a blood-spattered ground, surrounded by the bodies of the fallen. The entire scene conveys chaos, violence, and fear.
The image is a nod to Daumier’s Gargantua, which depicted France’s King Louis-Philippe as a grotesque giant devouring the people’s wealth while rewarding his cronies. Here, that 19th-century metaphor of gluttonous tyranny is adapted to Tanzania’s present moment — portraying a leader who consumes corruption, fear, and human lives themselves.
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
PR firm 'planted story' about Iran funding Palestine Action in media, report says Head of CMS Strategic, which works for Israeli arms firm Elbit Systems, was allegedly heard by witness saying she placed story in The Times before group's proscription www.middleeasteye.net/news/pr-firm...
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PR firm 'planted story' about Iran funding Palestine Action in media, report says
Head of CMS Strategic, which works for Israeli arms firm Elbit Systems, was allegedly heard by witness saying she placed story in The Times before group's proscription
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
‘British police arrested us for carrying signs on pizza boxes’ Two young Irish men feel they’re being treated “akin to ISIS” after being arrested for carrying pizza boxes emblazoned with a Palestine Action and anti-genocide slogan in London Lift The Ban m.independent.ie/irish-news/b...
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‘British police arrested us for carrying signs on pizza boxes’ – Irish men facing charges under terrorism legislation
Two young Irish men feel they’re being treated “akin to ISIS” after being arrested for carrying pizza boxes emblazoned with a Palestine Action (PA) and anti-genocide slogan in London.
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
'We Will Not Be Silenced': Prisoners Launch Hunger Strike Over UK's 'Complicity in Genocide' Remand-held activists against Elbit Systems launch open-ended hunger strike for bail, fair trials, and deproscription of Palestine Action Search: Prisoners for Palestine www.ibtimes.co.uk/imprisoned-u...
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Pro-Palestine Prisoners Launch Hunger Strike Over UK's 'Complicity in Genocide'
Three UK activists jailed over anti-Elbit protests launch a hunger strike on the Balfour Declaration anniversary, demanding bail, fair trials, and an end to Britain's arms trade with Israel.
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eddiethomas88.bsky.social @eddiethomas88.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Atar on fall of al-Fashir, #Darfur. RSF took city with new drone systems, Colombian mercenaries, killings of food smugglers. People fleeing chaotically to non-aligned areas in Jebel Marra, massacre and torture en route. Emergency rooms closed in mourning. atarnetwork.com?p=16940&utm_...
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سقوط الفاشر: حصار 550 يوماً انتهَى بمَقْتلةٍ دموية - أتر
«أنا عزّة أمين محمد صالح، خرجنا من الفاشر يوم السبت الماضي عند الساعة الثانية صباحاً، واستغرقت الرحلة يومين ونصف. كان الطريق إلى «طويلة» ممتلئاً بالمعاناة؛ وقد رأينا فظائع وعجائب، من اعتقالاتٍ وتفتيشٍ...
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eddiethomas88.bsky.social @eddiethomas88.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/extre...
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Extremely alarming violence and malnutrition in North Darfur
As attacking forces advance into El Fasher, Sudan, MSF teams in nearby Tawila are receiving people fleeing with gunshot wounds and severe malnutrition.
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The New Humanitarian @newhumanitarian.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Fighters from the Rapid Support Forces have filmed themselves committing mass killings in Darfur’s El Fasher – even as their leaders sat in US-sponsored peace talks. The city’s fall marks a new horror in Sudan’s war, reports journalist and human rights defender Ahmed Gouja. ⬇️
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An atrocity foretold: How the RSF siege of El Fasher turned into genocidal slaughter
Communication networks are down but a deluge of shocking videos point to mass killings on a devastating scale.
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eddiethomas88.bsky.social @eddiethomas88.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Fourth anniversary of Sudan's most recent coup, organized by the RSF and SAF together. Great article by Lutz Oette and Nada Ali remembering how the coup pushed Sudan towards this terrible war sudantransparency.org/remembering-...
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Remembering Sudan’s Coup d’État four years on – Sudan Transparency and Policy Tracker
By Lutz Oette and Nada Ali If anyone is under the illusion that the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) led by General Abdel Fattah Al Burhan is fighting for the libera
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Kareem Chehayeb @chehayebk.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Death toll from Israel's overnight strikes in Gaza reaches 81. Hospital officials expect that number to go up. Israel’s military has since said the ceasefire is back on. apnews.com/article/isra...
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Israel's military says ceasefire is back on as death toll from overnight strikes in Gaza reaches 81
The death toll in Gaza from overnight Israeli strikes has climbed to 81. Previously, at least 60 people, including many children, were reported killed.
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eddiethomas88.bsky.social @eddiethomas88.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Sudan is the latest govt to get the deportation bug. Deportations won't solve the permacrises in Europe or the US, and they won't bring peace or prosperity to Sudan. sudantribune.com/article/306192
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Khartoum takes action against nearly 20,000 foreigners - Sudan Tribune
October 20, 2025 (KHARTOUM) – Sudanese authorities in Khartoum state have taken measures against nearly 20,000 foreigners, including trials and deportations, as part of a security campaign that follow...
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eddiethomas88.bsky.social @eddiethomas88.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Why are Sudanese gun-trucks called Thatchers? Why is the Janjaweed named after the Heckler and Koch G3 rifle. Because Euro arms deals are always needed for for genocide. Yet another incredible must-read from @romandeckert.bsky.social www.rosalux.de/en/news/id/5...
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Germany’s Hand in Sudan’s War - Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung
How German rifles, Cold War politics, and Gulf partnerships shaped, and still fuel, Sudan’s tragedy
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Now’s a great time to pick up Alaa’s book, folks. It is perfectly titled: you have not yet been defeated Alaa was not defeated!
YOU HAVE
NOT YET BEEN
DEFEATED
ALAA ABD EL-FATTAH
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Mai El-Sadany @maitelsadany.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
علاء علي الاسفلت!!!! Alaa is HOME and FREE!!!
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Did we just get a Banksy? New Banksy showing judge hitting protester with gavel appears on High Court. metro.co.uk/2025/09/08/n...
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'New Banksy' showing judge hitting protester with gavel appears on High Court
It's already been boarded up.
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History Cafe ☕ Ottoman Heritage @ottomanhistory.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
📷 Two Ottoman Youth Both Named Yusuf in Antalya: An #Arab from Beirut and an #African from Antalya, December 21, 1882 (Southern Türkiye)
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 25/08/2025
"Around 2.5% of all global marine fish caught are used to feed Norwegian salmon farms" - wtf!!!
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Vincent van Gogh @vangogh.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Orphans - 1882 #artbots #vangogh botfrens.com/collections/46/content…
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eddiethomas88.bsky.social @eddiethomas88.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Read this book! First major study of S Sudan's climate catastrophe. Written by maths PhD who can explain and critique climate stats - AND integrates evidence from documentary/oral history + songs. Optimistic about S Sudanese capacity for climate adaptation + justice. x.com/jongethon/st...
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The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 16/08/2025
Sally Rooney: I support Palestine Action. If this makes me a ‘supporter of terror’ under UK law, so be it
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Sally Rooney: I support Palestine Action. If this makes me a ‘supporter of terror’ under UK law, so be it
I would happily publish this statement in a UK newspaper – but that would now be illegal
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Mike McGrath-Bryan @mikemcgb.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
In a world of John Boynes, be a Sally Rooney.
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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Sally Rooney: I support Palestine Action. If this makes me a ‘supporter of terror’ under UK law, so be it www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
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The Continent @thecontinent.org · 16/08/2025
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...
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The Continent @thecontinent.org · 15/08/2025
All Protocol Observed Welcome to Issue 209 of The Continent The war in Sudan is more than numbers and labels — it’s a war about everything. Five Sudanese writers share stories from the ground, revealing its real contours and what it’s truly about. Get your copy here: bit.ly/TC_209
This cover of The Continent (16 August 2025, Issue 209) has a headline that reads:
“The war about everything in Sudan” in dark grey text on the left side.
The artwork filling most of the page is an abstract, cubist-style drawing of a human face made up of many geometric patterns and shapes. The face is black and grey with sections of checkerboard, stripes, and intricate line designs. The lips are deep red. The figure has two large pointed ear-like shapes on top of the head, long dark arms raised upward on either side, and several eyes scattered within the fragmented face design.
At the top, the page “The Continent” is printed in large, dark blue letters with a small red circle (like a sun) above the head in the middle. A gold strip runs along the top edge with the text: African Journalism | 16 August 2025 | Issue 209.
The artist is Khalid Shatta.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 15/08/2025
Also, from yesterday: "What matters more than your aversion to calling Israel’s actions “genocide” is the fact that a genocide is happening. Stop verbalizing your moral impulses out of existence by hemming and hawing about whether a genocide is a genocide."
news.chanda.science
Refusing to name the Final Solution in Gaza
The ancestors demand justice for the living.
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