Hafsa Halawa

Sudan war has killed 25,000 children, medics say; 45 girls raped fleeing El Fasher - Sudan Tribune December 2, 2025 (PORT SUDAN) – More than 25,000 children have been killed and 45 girls raped while fleeing the North-Darfur city of El Fasher since Sudan’s war began, a doctors’ group said on Tuesday...

According to at least one independent group “More than 25,000 children have been killed and 45 girls raped while fleeing the North-Darfur city of El Fasher since Sudan’s war began”

Utterly horrific, making global silence on #Sudan ever more unconscionable

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Amnesty’s report on the carnage at the hands of the RSF at Zamzam, April 2025:

Sudan: “A Refuge Destroyed”: RSF Violations in Darfur’s Zamzam Camp for Internally Displaced Persons

www.amnesty.org/en/documents...

In Lebanon. Can hear the Israeli drone constantly now. I’ve only been back for a day but folks here deal with it 24/7, for months. It’s psychological torture. You can even see it, just flying around. The Israelis want to let everyone know that they can kill whoever they want whenever they want.

Many congratulations to my colleague and dear friend Randa Slim:

Stimson Center Welcomes Randa Slim to Lead Middle East Program

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The problem in Sudan, the major battle to ending the war, only comes with acknowledging that everyone has blood on their hands.

Again I ask: are we going to discuss when and how Shabana Mahmoud was radicalised?

There is no other explanation for this.

Pure heartless cruelty.

The entire Parliamentary Labour Party owns this. All of them, heartless, cruel, racist, bigoted, incompetent, careless and unfeeling idiots.

Are we asking what/who radicalised Shabana Mahmoud yet? Because honestly, I don’t see any other explanation.

To all the US officials who have stayed silent as Israel killed 271 Palestinian journalists, assassinated Shereen Abu Akleh:

there have been few public figures, advocates or voices more staunchly committed to Palestinian self-determination in our region, than Jamal Khashoggi, Allah yerhamo.

Channel 4 News on Instagram: "“I don’t want to die as a refugee in this country” says Afraa Hashem, a Syrian woman who arrived in the UK in 2020. Afraa and her family have applied for Indefinite Leav... 1,386 likes, 280 comments - channel4news on November 17, 2025: "“I don’t want to die as a refugee in this country” says Afraa Hashem, a Syrian woman who arrived in the UK in 2020. Afraa and her famil...

Additional interview highlights from Afraa:

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Channel 4 News on Instagram: "The Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has announced what she claims is the “most sweeping asylum reforms in modern times”. Under the new rules, refugees will face a much lo... 217 likes, 39 comments - channel4news on November 17, 2025: "The Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has announced what she claims is the “most sweeping asylum reforms in modern times”. Under the new rule...

Our beautiful Afraa bravely sharing her thoughts, interviewed yesterday by @channel4news.bsky.social over the new measures announced by the Home Secretary yesterday

cc @thesyriacampaign.org

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Confiscating jewellery from survivors of a war zone makes you look like a fucking Nazi. And the obscene thing is, that is the intention. It's there to look appropriately harsh. Indecent. Filthy. A moral stain. And no-one of good character would have ever proposed such a thing in the first place.

Bezabt. Da esmo a7a.

Indeed, I remember that well

What. The. Actual. F***

Enjoy!!

When Tigray became a ‘Wild West’ of illegal gold mining, Canadian firms staked a claim A postwar gold rush in Ethiopia razed the landscape and sowed seeds for conflict. The Globe looks into Canadian-licensed sites at the heart of it, and their ties to Beijing

Important investigative work outlining the pillaging of the Horn of Africa - not just in Sudan:

How gold tarnished Tigray

www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...

Sudan's deadly divide: The RSF and SAF's reign of terror | Brookings While methods vary, both RSF and SAF forces demonstrate disdain for international humanitarian law and contempt for Sudan’s citizens.

Very, very good read from Amb. Jeffrey Feltman:

Sudan’s deadly divide: The RSF and SAF’s reign of terror

www.brookings.edu/articles/sud...

Sudan has always been the holy grail of regional security, stability & supply. It’s where all conventional, traditional & natural alliances blow up as all external actors compete for the same resources. Public disaccord amongst them isn’t surprising - that they’ve made this competition zero-sum, is.

We all have, I was referring to how we have been screaming at the world for elevating and supporting people for their pro-Palestine stances, ignoring the fact they’re Assadists.

It’s taken two years of shouting into the void as pro-Palestine activism whitewashed and covered up all the pro-Assad voices who created a heinous and violent online space of defending his barbarism during social uprising, but now the Gaza War is slowing, people are finally listening.

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.

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

End of The Line: how Saudi Arabia’s Neom dream unravelled Mohammed bin Salman’s utopian city was undone by the laws of physics and finance

Honestly, I just laughed through most of this article:

““When you flush the toilet, the stuff goes downhill, right?” the architect asked…“We’re going to have hundreds of shuttle cars running back and forth, picking up the sewage on retractable bridges.””

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The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.

The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands

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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.

What is happening in Darfur is utterly devastating, made more painful by how we all saw it coming. You can’t really say you didn’t know, but if you didn’t, read this:

An atrocity foretold: How the RSF siege of El Fasher turned into genocidal slaughter

www.thenewhumanitarian.org/analysis/202...

First London, now New York.

If there’s one post-2001 legacy thesis that is yet to be written, it’s about mayoral elections in these two cities.

There should be something impactful and meaningful about accountability that one has ready to say when it’s announced Dick Cheney has died.

But maybe, actually, it’s enough that today will only ever be remembered as the day Zohran Mamdani becomes the Mayor of New York City.

Blood spilled in Sudan can be seen from space. Nobody can feign ignorance about what’s going on | Nesrine Malik The massacres carried out by the RSF in El Fasher, Darfur, with the support of its UAE sponsors, will only stop when the international community acts, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

Blood spilled in Sudan can be seen from space. Nobody can feign ignorance about what’s going on | Nesrine Malik

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The folks at The Continent continue to commission the reporting of some of the best Sudanese journalists on the ground, read Khalid Elwalid's full story from page 13 onwards.

And check in with your Sudanese friends.

www.thecontinent.org

Sudan's cultural heritage becomes a casualty in its civil war Sudan’s civil war has become a humanitarian catastrophe of staggering scale, marked by famine, ethnic cleansing and sexual violence. Over three years, an estimated 150,000 people have been killed, and...

Sudan’s cultural heritage becomes a casualty in its civil war

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