notes on sudan

One of the things about grief that I'm never going to get used to is people assuming that hearing stories about the most important person in my life is something that invariably makes me sad/something I want to avoid, and that I somehow forget my dad is dead until they mention him.

Photograph shows a young Sudanese man praying, and a group of young displaced Sudanese men in the background.

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

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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...

Map showing European settlements in Africa before the Berlin conference, 1884. Sketched by hand.

Map illustrating countries represented at the Bandung conference, 1955. Sketched by hand.

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.

100%. Tired of being subjected to half baked theories every month that basically suggest the lack of empathy is because we've not posted enough videos of our dead and dying.

awful

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 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..."

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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...