Benjamin Rey

‘We will never, ever escape’: inside the ever-tightening siege of the Sudanese city of El Fasher For 500 days, 260,000 people have been trapped by the paramilitary RSF. While political progress stalls, those who attempt escape are killed and those who remain inside are starving. Experts believe t...

This article about the Elfashir siege is so illuminating, and at the same time infuriating & BAFFLING. It is beyond comprehension that *all this* is happening to a population, and no one in power feels any sense of urgency at all.

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

A must read!

#KeepEyesOnSudan

Le militant égyptien Alaa Abd El-Fattah est libre, après plus de onze ans en prison Figure de la gauche égyptienne et de la révolution de 2011, le détenu politique a obtenu une grâce présidentielle.

Enfin !

www.lemonde.fr/internationa...

list of accounts to follow on Sudan

If you're looking to learn more about #Sudan, consider this list of accounts across platforms!

Sorry BlueSky is not included, I think we're still very few on here that I haven't been able to compile us yet.

#KeepEyesOnSudan

Nous sommes le 5 août, et la province de Soueïda, en Syrie, est toujours soumise à un siège imposé par le gouvernement, où seuls quelques camions du Croissant-Rouge syrien et d’ONG ont été autorisés à passer. Plus de 500 000 personnes sont assiégées,
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🇪🇺Donald Trumps extortion racket comes back for Von der Leyen Ursula von der Leyen gave Trump $1.35 trillion in trade and energy concessions to avoid a tariff war. Now he wants more, and threatens 35% tariffs if we don’t pay up.

Ursula von der Leyen gave Trump $1.35 trillion in trade and energy concessions to avoid a tariff war. Now he wants more, and threatens 35% tariffs if we don’t pay up.

www.frenchdispatch.eu/p/trump-tari...

Gaza, le champ de la mort La première opération militaire à laquelle j’ai participé était au Cambodge en 1992. J’avais vu au cinéma le film terrifiant de Roland Joffé « The Killing Fields » traduit en français par…

Gaza, le champ de la mort

Sommes-nous à ce point résignés pour fermer les yeux et abandonner à leur sort des Palestiniens martyrisés par le Hamas et par les extrémistes qui forment le gouvernement actuel d’Israël sous la direction de Benyamin Netanyahou ?

nepassubir.fr/2025/05/04/g...

It's the party of the century in Damascus ....

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Best music of the 21st century so far:
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@flotationtoyw.bsky.social

Rami says the interim government has made *both* Dec 25 and 26 public holidays. It has added the 26th as an additional public holiday. From what I can read, that seems to be correct.

X is a far-right social media platform.

Who still wants to hang out there?

It's about time not only to leave X but also to start calling it "the far-right social media platform".

Did CNN Fabricate the Story of "Freeing a Prisoner from a Secret Jail"? On December 12, CNN published a video report on its website, YouTube, and X (formerly Twitter) titled, 'CNN Reporter Documents a Shocking Moment of Finding a Prisoner Held in a Secret Syrian Jail, Una...

Thank you for the link. Note that there is an English version of the article: verify-sy.com/en/details/1...

Le régime Al-Assad, ce fameux "rempart contre le terrorisme"...

You could also just have celebrated this historic day for Syria, and be overjoyed with the Syrians who became part of our European societies.

Europeans instead debate how to send people back most efficiently - that’s shameful.

Pas une arrestation, apparemment ? bsky.app/profile/aron...

Souvenirs d'Alep, février 2011

Unbelievable.

Thank you for all your work and reporting throughout these long years, Rami.