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Print journalist covering MENA. Bylines in @CSmonitor @Newlinesmag @AJEnglish @TIME @newhumanitarian and others. Formerly AJE features correspondent for MENA
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"In south #Lebanon, home is inseparable from the land and the communities it sustains. Years of aggression by #Israel have forged a collective resolve among residents to remain rooted there."
This is a 🧵about my latest story for @inkstickmedia below:
inkstickmedia.com/fear-loss-…
This was predictable.
Angry protests broke out in Sudan's Atbara today as citizens blocked roads and burned tyres over skyrocketing public transport fares. The unrest highlights a deepening economic crisis marked by severe fuel shortages and surging inflation.
sudantribune.com/article/320…
#Sudan #Atbara #EconomicCrisis #Protests
From Serbia to Brazil, we are reminded that grassroots politics - led by and for the youth -- can instigate real structural change.
This is why autocratic and reactionary regimes devote so much time and energy to repressing and controlling this demographic.
Out of fear.
We live in a word where our so-called pundits -- which command so much airtime -- celebrate ignorance and arrogance like its somehow a strength.
No wonder the world has lost all trust in the media. Those tasked with informing us won't even inform themselves.
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Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi's unprecedented decision has significant implications for Egypt's political landscape, the balance of power within the regime and the military's influence over Egypt's people.
Read @AAboudouh's (@CH_MENAP) latest analysis for Chatham House.
Expert comment | bit.ly/3W4snCU |
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Sudan’s Emergency Lawyers group has proposed establishing urgent relief centers across the country following warnings from Western nations about an impending famine. Around 19.5 million people in Sudan are currently facing acute food insecurity.
sudantribune.com/article/320…
#Sudan #Famine #HumanitarianCrisis
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As more RSF defect, the sanitation campaign will continue in earnest.
Soon even Hemedti, we'll be told, was just a pawn - and the RSF will rejoin the SAF with immunity.
After all, they are not each others' greatest threat/greater enemy. Civilians are.
#KeepEyesOnSudan
#Sudan
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I know up is down these days but serenading the UN for a position when you undermined the same institution and rejected the UN Panel of Experts’ findings on UAE links to the RSF to run cover for your government’s calamitous role in Sudan’s war is an outrage and an insult.
I've spent much of my life in and around the @UN. What stays with me most is its people: colleagues who, in the world's hardest places, deliver food and medicine, protect civilians and help parties take the first steps towards peace.
The UN was never meant to agree with the world. It was built to help the world agree. This UN Day, I remain confident in what the United Nations can achieve - and in the future we can build when it acts early, supports its personnel, and measures success by what changes on the ground. #UNDay
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From Nyala to Omdurman, hunger is spreading as prices soar, the rainy season fails, medicines run short, and healthcare services deteriorate.
The deadly triangle of hunger, disease, and war will continue to claim lives unless peace is achieved and this war ends. #KeepEyesOnSudan
Nothing epitomizes #Sudan 's war more than the trend of RSF defectors warmly returning back to SAF while SAF weaponizes the death penalty against brave journalists, accusing them of enemies of the state
It's a clear admission that SAF believes that it alone constitutes the state
RSF defectors are also aggravating the delicate balance of interests under the SAF's umbrella.
We are gradually seeing a landscape of increased fragmentation, beginning with the RSF and likely also to occur within the SAF.
I warned about this at the start of the war.
This is another big lose for the RSF which is eroding from the inside out. The battlefield reality is slowly but steadily shifting, but policy responses to the conflict from outside are not nearly as responsive. They are trying to solve a conflict that existed 12 months ago, not the one they are facing today.
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The Sudanese government has moved to muzzle out dissent, threatening freedom of expression and journalists. Article 51 of the Sudanese penal code of 1991 'waging war against the state', a crime punishable by death, has been amended to include "electronic and media publishing" .
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This is the single biggest story in #Sudan right now and it's not getting anywhere near enough attention
Sudan faces the Four Horsemen: War, Famine, Death and Conquest - in an apocalyptic spiral while authorities deny the issues & global response budgets shrink.
#KeepEyesOnSudan
🚨Just as some #Sudan farmers try to plant after fighting moves on, El Nino is pummeling them with the worst drought in decades.
WFP projects more than 1mln people will enter severe hunger as a result, and is unlikely to be able to help them.
Our story: reuters.com/world/new-famine…
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That's the idea!
Criminalising free speech at a time when Burhan's popularity is plummeting (lack of satisfactory response to Egyptian bombing of Sudanese miners plus unchecked cataclysmic inflation).
#KeepEyesOnSudan
#Sudan
The de facto SAF government’s amendment to Article 51 of the Criminal Code expands the scope of the offence of waging war against the state to include media and electronic publishing. We could all be at risk of facing the death penalty simply for reporting.
#KeepEyesOnSudan
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The muzzling of Egypt’s last remaining independent media, the arrest of the Matsadaash team, and the case against Mada Masr’s editor-in-chief could signal that something is brewing in the coming days, necessitating a complete media gag by the ruling regime.
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Important info on Egypt's growing crackdown on its few remaining independent journalists. I note how a weak international response encouraged Egypt to continue. Failing to stop this will greatly impair our understanding of a strategically critical country at a very sensitive time
Egypt has jailed an entire newsroom and referred @MadaMasr Editor-in-Chief Lina Attalah to trial, in an escalating campaign to silence the country’s remaining independent media.
Read CPJ’s analysis of Egypt’s unprecedented crackdown on the press by @m_medhaat:
cpj.org/2026/10/whos-next-in…
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Less than a month after arresting the entire Matsadaash newsroom, the Egyptian govt has now filed baseless charges against the editor-in-chief of Mada Masr, continuing their largest crackdown in years.
This assault on the free press must end NOW. Journalism is not a crime.
CPJ condemns the referral of @MadaMasr Editor-in-Chief Lina Attalah to trial for operating a website without a license that Egyptian authorities have themselves refused to grant for years. Egypt is weaponizing its media law to punish independent journalism and intensify one of its worst crackdowns on the press in years, which began with the arrest of six Matsdaash journalists. It is long past time for Egypt to end this campaign and allow independent media to report freely.
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The de facto SAF government’s amendment to Article 51 of the Criminal Code expands the scope of the offence of waging war against the state to include media and electronic publishing. We could all be at risk of facing the death penalty simply for reporting.
#KeepEyesOnSudan
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حصلت نقابة الصحفيين السودانيين على عضوية الاتحاد الدولي للصحفيين وهو اكبر تجمع نقابي للصحفيين يضم ممثلين عن 148 دولة باجمالي 600 الف صحفي في كل قارات العالم
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Oct 22 (Reuters) - Egypt advocates exploring "every opportunity" to resolve the Yemen conflict diplomatically, its foreign minister said, ahead of a parliamentary vote next week on authorising the armed forces to support Saudi Arabia against the Iran-aligned Houthis.
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if the UN confirms an Emirati as Secretary-General it will be the final nail in the coffin, confirming that the UN has never been more than a post-WWII racket designed to maintain Euro-American hegemony. Palestine showed this juridically, & Sudan will confirm it administratively.