Learn more about “Making Routes: Mobility and Politics of Migration in the Global South” Edited by Gerda Heck, Eda Sevinin, Elena Habersky and Carlos Sandoval-García (AUC Press, 2024):
🔗https://t.co/Zbjl4GtpFt
#MiddleEastStudies#migration#migrants#GlobalSouth#aucpress
Across northern Africa, #UNHCR is turned into a mere service provider
1) In #Egypt it is being replaced by the state
2) The asylum law in #Algeria might have a similar outcome
3) The Mufti in #Libya wants UNHCR to be expelled
4) The #Tunisia gov prevents UNHCR from registrations
This report confirms what we’ve known for years: the UAE is continuing to provide robust support for the RSF in Sudan, enabling their horrific genocide. The U.S. needs to stop ignoring this and funneling weapons to the UAE anyway.
https://t.co/UYPYbEu6Ic
Breaking News: Marjane Satrapi, the Iranian-French author whose graphic novel series “Persepolis” illuminated the struggles of Iranians during the Islamic Revolution, died at 56. https://t.co/WQWxavBm5l
People measure inflation in many ways. my favorite way to measure inflation in Egypt is my good old Stella beer. 20 years ago, it was 4.5 EGP / bottle. Today it's 50. 1,011% inflation in 20 years.
Survivors describe how their family and neighbors were slaughtered by the Rapid Support Forces in Sudan, as they committed genocide with arms and soldiers supplied by the amoral United Arab Emirates. https://t.co/dmnoT5HgG7
Despite the beginning of Eid-al-Adha holidays, forcibly displaced Sudanese citizens have died amid chaos at border crossings during their return journeys
https://t.co/ePL85XzvIM
Human rights organizations including Amnesty International call for the release of Mohammed Farouk Salman Mahmoud, a Sudanese political activist detained in the UAE since Jan 2025 for allegedly "insulting the head of state." He is currently detained in Al Sadr Prison, Abu Dhabi.
"If mental illness is frowned upon, suicide remains the ultimate taboo — both religiously forbidden and socially unacceptable." Inside the suicide crisis stalking Sudanese refugees in Egypt.https://t.co/xupk2lnLB4
"Once in Egypt Sudan’s war refugees have faced racism and what the UN has described as an intensifying campaign of arbitrary arrests and human rights violations. Devastating conditions for Sudanese in Egypt pushing them to flee to Europe or return to war. https://t.co/02xXc9WOGI
Pope Leo XIV called for robust regulation of artificial intelligence and for its developers to work for the common good rather than profit, issuing a sweeping manifesto on safeguarding humankind as the technology impacts everything from work to war. https://t.co/VSlFOkxhry
According to #Sudanese media sources, thousands of Sudanese returning from #Egypt are facing harsh #humanitarian conditions at the Argeen border crossing, following scams by Sudanese #transport companies that left them stranded in the open.
The suffering of those stranded
particularly #women , #children , and the #elderly is compounded by soaring temperatures and a severe lack of basic services.
#Sudan #Khartoum
https://t.co/pDHSOYG0ZK
“At least 15 cases of sexual assaults, including rape. Shot with rubber bullets at close range. Tens of people’s bones broken,” organizers of the Global SumudFlotilla posted on the Telegram social media app.
“While the world’s eye is trained on the suffering of our participants, we cannot emphasize enough that this is a mere glimpse of the brutality Israel imposes daily on Palestinian hostages.”
Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing an essay, writing a eulogy, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing for 5,000 years.
In #Sudan More than 100 suspected cases of acute watery diarrhea have been reported in West #Kordofan .
Around 300 suspected cases of mpox (formerly known as monkeypox) have been reported in #Darfur .
Approximately 500 suspected cases of dengue #fever have also been reported.
(UN News Arabic)
#Khartoum #AlFasher #war
#KeepEyesOnSudan