notes on sudan

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 put Sudan in the search box and the results were largely Americans talking about deporting Trump & Republicans to Sudan/South Sudan........... 😑 there's gotta be a way to block posts from the US showing up.

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

Prison Memories: Sudanese Communists and the Aftermath of July 1971 in Kober In his memoirs on his time in Kober prison, the late Sudanese historian and Marxist Mohammed Saeed Gaddal recalls being alerted by urgent shouts from fellow inmates that a statement from Major Hashim ...

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

Excerpt from the Wretched of the Earth which states to politicise the masses "means driving home to the masses that everything depends on them, that if we stagnate the fault is theirs, and that if we progress, they too are responsible..."

happy birthday fanon 🎈

In Sudan, where children clung to life, doctors say USAID cuts have been fatal The Trump administration’s cuts to USAID had an immediate and deadly impact in war-ravaged Sudan, according to civilians, doctors and aid officials.

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“When U.S.-supported soup kitchens were forced to close, babies starved quietly, their mothers said, while older siblings died begging for food.”

The world’s richest man did this to the world’s poorest children.

Don’t ever forget.

In Khartoum Bahri, returning residents find neighbourhoods turned to graveyards - Sudan Tribune June 23, 2025 ( KHARTOUM BAHRI) – When Mohammed Abbas tried to return to his family’s neighbourhood, his goal was not to reclaim a home but to move a grave. His brother, a casualty of Sudan’s brutal w...

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........

(We don't talk about the other film called Khartoum/aka the-probably-inebriated-throughout-filming-Laurence-Olivier-in-blackface-one)

YouTube video by NativeVoiceFilms KHARTOUM (2025) | Official Trailer

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...)
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*35 years. A few years ago a fellow trade unionist approached me to talk about their work on his case since the revolution, and how the coup halted their chances of securing justice. We had 2-3 years of these atrocities finally being acknowledged, mass graves unearthed, before they put an end to it.

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.

Sudanese Cinema Explore the rich cinematic tradition of Sudan, from independence to the present day.

Just realised there are also a load of other amazing looking Sudanese films being screened alongside this in Brooklyn next week, as part of a series on Sudanese cinema: www.bam.org/film/2025/su...

... and that every single one of these things, all of this and worse, would be seen as normal by everyone except us.

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...

YouTube video by New Wave Films Talking About Trees - English subtitled trailer

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.
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I'm not reposting them & haven't been able to watch more than 20 seconds but I can't stop thinking about the videos of prisoners - of delirium, skin, & bones. The video of corpses of starved prisoners is one of the most horrifying things I've seen since this war started & that's saying something.

A screenshot from a news article featuring the phrase "university building-turned-prison."

Universities transformed into torture chambers in Khartoum.

www.france24.com/en/live-news...

Honestly, was half jokingly saying we should check if artefacts from 600BC Meroe suddenly start showing up in museums in the UAE.

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.

Read the very last story Hossam Shabat filed, hours before Israel murdered him. I can't believe I'm talking about Hossam in the past tense.
www.dropsitenews.com/p/hossam-sha...

Sudan civil war: Khartoum gravedigger 'too busy to sleep' as fighting rages The smell of death lingers over the main cemetery for Sudan's capital as the army advances in the city centre.

'...he and young volunteers bury "not less than 25, 30, or 40 bodies a day".' On (one of) Khartoum's gravediggers today.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Any starter packs of trade unionists in the global South or Black/Brown labour organisers in the West? All the labour/trade union starter packs I see are a very specific demographic....
Asking as a Black trade unionist who spends far too long organising against racism in union spaces.

Artwork on a residential wall in Khartoum of a woman holding up a stick usually used for cooking. The text says A woman's place is the resistance in Arabic المرا مكانا المقاومة.

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).