In my latest piece:
Sudanese Are Not Waiting for International Support - They Have Begun the Recovery from Within
Sudan’s humanitarian response remains chronically underfunded.
But beneath the visible emergency, a silent crisis is unfolding- quieter, slower, and no less devastating: the erosion of Sudan’s productive capacity - people’s livelihoods - and the community-rooted systems on which any future recovery will depend.
What is lost now cannot be restored later through reconstruction funding.
This article draws on interviews with some conflict-affected communities and grassroots formations in parts of Darfur, Kordofan, and Gezira to examine how three years of war have damaged agriculture, livestock, water infrastructure, and local markets.
It documents early recovery efforts already underway: banks, women - led livelihood initiatives, cooperative farming campaigns - built under extreme conditions and with almost no external support.
These solidarity structures are not easy to find if you are not looking. They do not have websites. Many do not speak English or write donor proposals. But they are doing work no international actor can replicate. The question is whether those with resources and power are serious about finding them and funding them directly.
The international community has rightly prioritised hunger, malnutrition, and displacement. But these are not the whole crisis.
What the past three years reveal is a persistent indifference to the full depth of Sudan’s crisis -and to the determination of Sudanese people to reclaim their lives.
At a moment of deepening funding cuts, what would it take to recognise Sudanese-led recovery efforts not as a residual concern, but as the foundation for any meaningful response to this crisis?
#Sudan
#KeepEyesonSudan
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This morning, on behalf of 12 #Sudanese victims, we filed a criminal complaint in #Kenya against #RSF for war crimes. Survivors endured detention, torture, rape & killings. A first ever under universal jurisdiction in 🇰🇪. Press release.👇
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As #Quintet, we remain committed to supporting an inclusive, Sudanese-led and Sudanese-owned political process aimed at advancing prospects for a sustainable peace in Sudan🇸🇩
Fatina fled El Fasher, Sudan, after a shell landed inside her home. Two of her children were killed. She was injured.
After eight days without enough water, she reached safety in Chad with the rest of her children.
Today, millions of people like Fatina, displaced by the war in Sudan, are facing the consequences of this senseless violence that continues to shatter lives.
The people of Sudan cannot be forgotten.
#KeepEyesOnSudan
🚨 دوي أصوات مدفعية ثقيلة في نواحي متفرقة من «أمدرمان» استمر نحو ساعتين، مما أثار حالة من الهلع والرعب بين المواطنين قبل أن يتوقف دون تحديد مصدره أو أهدافه.
A confirmed Ebola patient in Uganda had travelled through the United Arab Emirates on his way from DRC to Uganda, according to WHO director Tedros at a briefing today. They are tracing his contacts.
Their throats are hoarse with repeating the same demands & aspirations of the life they want to live in their country. They are tired and tireless.
So if you can’t hear this message it’s because you are not listening -or choose not to.
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And they recite the last of their Revolution’s poetry as dusk falls on another day of their long fight.
The criminals in uniform had shot at them a while ago.They were expecting them to fire again. The poem is always: Justice.
سما الخرطوم
محطة٧
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A while ago, they were chased, had teargas hurled at them and shot at. One of them was killed.
They sat down and stayed.
This is not a nation you are going to trick with terms of ‘Political Settlement’ with no real gains.
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