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SALAM: Sudan’s Youth-led Social Enterprise Manufacturing Face Masks to Plug COVID-19 Shortages
by Rahba El Amin - Jul 27, 2020As Sudan’s collapsed healthcare braces for COVID-19 and a governance crisis unfolds alongside the pandemic, a resourceful spirit adapts to avoid catastrophic outcomes. Providing protective gear whilst generating income to the underprivileged, SALAM strives to keep... -
Dismantling Al Bashir’s Regime
by Rahba El Amin - May 5, 2020On 10 December 2019, which marked International Human Rights Day, General Abdel Fattah Al Burhan, Chairman of the Sovereign Council, signed a law for ‘Dismantling Al Bashir’s Regime’ – a law that aims to break the... -
Al Qeyada: A New World Inside of a Country
by Rahba El Amin - Jul 3, 2019On this day last month, Sudan witnessed a deadly attack on peaceful protesters when Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and other paramilitary forces raided the monthslong mass sit-in in Al Qeyada in front of the headquarters of... -
On Kleptocracy in Sudan
by Rahba El Amin - Mar 25, 2019In October 2017, the US lifted economic and trade sanctions on Sudan, which have been in place since 1997, due to cooperation with the Sudanese government in fighting terrorism and reducing conflict. However, contrary to Sudanese hopes of improved economic conditions,... -
Book Review: ‘Elsewhere, Home’ by Leila Aboulela
by Rahba El Amin - Jan 30, 2019‘I will always see the grass, patches of dry yellow, the rugs of palm fiber laid out. They curl at the edges, and when I put my forehead on the ground I can smell the grass... -
My Walk to Palestine
by Rahba El Amin - Nov 2, 2018Born into a Sudanese (Afro-Arab-Muslim) family, and coming of age in the UK, I was too young to fully comprehend oppression, occupation, and stolen rights, yet old enough to feel them through mosque speeches, BBC News,...