Latest in Atar: Food aid volume is declining in Sudan. Food aid provides a few kilos of food a year to target groups. It's not food aid, but old ideals of solidarity, inscribed into old production systems, which are keeping Sudan alive. atarnetwork.com?p=22340&utm_...
Then as now, militias were created by militarizing and criminalizing members of pastoralist groups, misrepresenting the entire group as naturally warlike, and using the militia name and the group name interchangeably - 'The Rizeigat'
Now what's needed is a history of militias used by the Egyptian Army - for example, the Egyptian Army's 1916 campaign to conquer Darfur, which relied on militias from drawn from pastoralist tribes whom the colonialists deemed warlike aberfoylesecurity.com?p=1206
@3arabawy.substack.com's conclusion should be read by everyone following the crisis in Sudan right now
But the Brits replace the Egyptian Army with the SDF, shortly after the 1919 Egyptian revolution, which brought the self-determination discourse of the post-WW1 Versailles conference into everyday politics in Egypt and Sudan - Britain feared the Egyptian Army would bring those ideas to Sudan +
As he often does, @3arabawy.substack.com grounds his analysis in an eye-opening re-reading of a forgotten text, this time, Abd al-Rahman al-Faki's 'History of the Sudan Defence Force.' The forerunner of the SDF was the Brit-officered Egyptian Army, which conquered and ruled Sudan +
READ THIS! Superb article from @3arabawy.substack.com on the Sudanese army's colonial origins. The army survives by reproducing the racialized fragmentations pioneered by the colonial state. One of the best accounts of the army I've ever read! + 3arabawy.substack.com/p/egypt-empire
Rendition of the anticolonial love poem written by Khalil Farah (the name 'Azza' used as a replacement for Sudan to evade detection by the colonial government). Happy Valentine's Day ❤️🩹
Meanwhile, the Australian government consolidates its commercial links with this merchant of death and state terror, Palantir. #auspol
Syrian authorities have begun evacuating al-Hol camp of Syrians. They are being transferred to a temporary camp in Aleppo in preparation for their return to their areas of origin. Only Iraqi families remain in the camp, awaiting repatriation to Iraq…
— Zain al-Abidin
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a street flooded with thousands of marchers.
Yesterday upwards of 300 million people across India held a national strike.
Numerous unions and farmers' groups flooded the streets, shutting down large segments of the economy.
One of the key demands was a withdrawal from the trade deal struck with the Trump administration.
Not all women are aware of the laws regarding abandonment and remarriage. It's a very difficult time for these women to face this grave injustice - military rule and constant war are not conducive to women's rights
In one case, ACJPS reports that the woman was abandoned by her husband in 2019, after giving birth. Sudan is a place of multiple separations, because of war, poverty, and a production system that relies heavily on migrant workers, and many women get separated from their husbands +
The Africa Centre for Justice and Peace Studies just published this report of two courts in Sudan sentencing women to death for adultery acjps.org/publications/s
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Many people say that Janjaweed - the 'devils on horseback' term for rural militias that committed the first Darfur genocides of the twenty-first century - is a compound of Jiim 3 - the Arabic translation for the German G3 rifle - and jawaad, or horseback /
If you want a sneak peek, read this great article from @romandeckert.bsky.social about how German arms shaped Sudanese wars of today rosalux.de/en/news/id/5...
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Can't wait to read part 2 of this article, which brings the story up to date with an account of the German role in twentieth and twenty-first century wars in Sudan +
Deckert's work uncovers the way German mercantile colonialists mobilized formerly enslaved Sudanese troops as mercenaries to carry out East African genocides - a key state formation strategy in the African interior, which in some places remains a state-maintenance strategy +
Ten years later, the British, French, Belgians and Germans were all waiting to pounce on South Sudan. The genocidal Belgian king Leopold snatched an enclave around Juba in 1894. 'C'est mon panache' said the monster, when the British asked him why he wanted a stretch of Nile waters +
He starts out with a great overview of precolonial German travel literature in Sudan, and German machinations in the Scramble for Africa, regulated by the Berlin Conference of 1884 +
The latest issue of the Society for the Study of the Sudans journal is out, and in it, another great article from @romandeckert.bsky.social on the hidden history of Germany in Sudan's long wars sssuk.org +
Greens will soon enough replace Labour as the party of choice for some trade unions
Palestine Action activists cleared of aggravated burglary at Israeli [weapons] factory
All six were acquitted of aggravated burglary and jurors found Ms Rajwani, Ms Rogers and Mr Devlin not guilty of violent disorder.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
After 17 months in prison, 6 Palestine Action members have been cleared of all charges over an alleged raid on Elbit Systems. What an embarassment for the government and their expansion of 'counter-terror' measures.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Muhamad Majadla (ch12, Israel) reports that Palestinian returnees were "offered flights to third countries as an alternative to going back to Gaza".
Fascinating guest post on @3arabawy.substack.com blog about the surveillance infrastructure of Egypt’s repressive state.
3arabawy.substack.com/p/inside-the...
MoLo project team photo by the University College London inclusion health outreach van with the Mongolian Community Organisation hosting the project.
Team members set up in advance for point of care testing
Kit for point of care testing for HIV, HBV, HCV and syphilis
Our #liver #health project ‘MoLo’ for the #Mongolian Community in #London: #education, assessment for #diabetes, metabolic liver disease #MASLD, #HIV & viral #hepatitis, & linkage to care. Huge team effort with brilliant engagement.
@who.int @crick.ac.uk @ucl.ac.uk
#HBV #HCV #LiverSky #MedSky
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They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
Still on!
Today is the 4th anniversary of the worst ever tragedy in the Channel.
At least 27 men, women & children drowned in the freezing water, & 4 more have never been found.
Since then, neither we nor the French have done a thing to offer people in this situation with real solutions.
