22 December 2024
  • SALAM: Sudan’s Youth-led Social Enterprise Manufacturing Face Masks to Plug COVID-19 Shortages

    by - Jul 27, 2020
    As 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 - May 5, 2020
    On 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 - Jul 3, 2019
    On 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 - Mar 25, 2019
    In 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 - 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 - Nov 2, 2018
    Born 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,...