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The security & humanitarian situation has dramatically deteriorated in several parts of #Sudan over the past 9 days, most notably in #Darfur.
Unclear where the 2M reportedly reached with aid during the "ceasefire" are, but the situation for many Sudanese has worsened, and INGOs still face serious obstacles moving aid into the worst affected areas.
dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/ar…
13 babies died in an orphanage in #Sudan's capital city on Friday. The death toll in Khartoum, Geneina, El Obeid, El Fashir, and other parts of the country has risen while the "ceasefire" was being "imperfectly observed" by the SAF & RSF.
reuters.com/world/africa/d…
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A 🧵 with some thoughts on #Sudan & how we got here:

Many rightly blame Bashir for creating Himedti & his militia as well as Burhan as Islamist SAF officer. No excuses for Bashir - but who created him? I first came to #Khartoum in 1997 & NOBODY took him seriously then. 1/10 Image
Of course, it was Turabi who ruled #Sudan back then rather than Bashir & had planned for it strategically for decades. So who paved the way for the Sheikh? Yes, Nimeiri elevated him since late '70s with Saudi support, but before it was: Sadiq al Mahdi & his UMMA. 2/10 Image
As I raged in my Twitter obituary for His Royal Holiness, never forget: it was Sadiq's UMMA who pushed for an Islamist constitution in the late 1960s. He ignored the Supreme Court ruling to reverse his ban of #Sudan's Communist Party & thus undermined the judiciary. 3/10 Image
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In #Sudan l'esercito sta recuperando posizioni, ma la situazione è molto fluida e le prospettive sono incerte. Non è da escludersi uno scenario di guerra civile con il Paese diviso in zone occupate anche da altri gruppi ribelli 🧵
Nell'immediato le truppe di #alBurhan sono state sorprese.
Le #RSF sono strutturate per colpire più velocemente. Sono equipaggiate mediamente meglio, hanno esperienze anche in Libia e nella regione del Lago Ciad. #Hemetti poi ha una fitta rete di contatti e roccaforti sparse.
Per di più in questo periodo l'esercito sudanese era in attesa di comprendere gli indirizzi per l'eventuale riorganizzazione dopo gli accordi del dicembre 2022 tra al-Burhan e le opposizioni, uno dei motivi della contesa con Hemetti.
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#Sudan 🇸🇩: residents of #Khartoum woke up this morning to the sound of gunfire and plumes of smoke rising into the air as clashes appear to have erupted in the capital city.

These armed confrontations follow weeks of rising tensions between the SAF and RSF military factions.
#Sudan 🇸🇩: many Sudanese see loyalists of the former #Bashir regime as being behind the recent tensions, sowing chaos as a way to derail any transition process and attempt a possible return to power dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/ar…
#Sudan 🇸🇩: more footage if gunfure and rising smoke in the #Khartoum area.
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1. 🌍|👉 Comenzamos la lista de los #EstadosFallidos de 2022 🇸🇩🇸🇸🇸🇴🇨🇩🇾🇪🇨🇫🇹🇩🇸🇾🇦🇫🇿🇼

🏦🌐👉 El 65% de los países del mundo están en #Riesgo o tienen un #AltoÍndice de ser considerado un #EstadoFallido #Geopolítica

#Hilo 🇪🇸🌐⬇️⬇️ Image
2. 🌍|👉 Para describir un Estado soberano, como #EstadoFallido, se considera, que ha fallado en garantizar el acceso a #ServiciosBásicos 🚿🍞 y #Seguridad 🏦🦺 principalmente a su población #Geopolítica #EstadosFallidos2022

#Hilo 🇪🇸🌐⬆️⬇️ Image
3. 🌍🇾🇪|👉 #Yemen es un país subdesarrollado,​ y es el país más pobre de #OrientePróximo. En Septiembre de 2014, los #Huthíes se apoderaron de la capital #Saná,​ iniciando una nueva #GuerraCivil 🔥⚔️

#Geopolítica #EstadosFallidos2022

#Hilo 🇪🇸🌐⬆️⬇️ Image
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#Sudan 🇸🇩: a deal has been reached in order to end the #SudanCoup which has been going on for over a year now.

Both the #FFC and the military have agreed to a 24-month transition, under the leadership of a civilian PM, with elections at the end.

But there's a but 👇
#Sudan 🇸🇩: just as with the previous transition deal there is very little that holds either #Burhan or #Hemedti to honor their promises, meaning the country is and remains very vulnerable to another #SudanCoup at any moment.

There is also no mention of any reform of the military
#Sudan 🇸🇩: the Resistance committees, which were the backbone of the December Revolution have already voiced their opposition to the deal since it doesn't include any framework to bring justice to the 110+ protesters who were killed since the #SudanCoup.
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This🧵on April-May incidents in #Darfur has become too lengthy. I’m starting a new one!

Sadly, since I started the first thread, incidents with deadly outcome occurred almost every day!
I hope by some miracle, this will be the last.

#SudanCoup #Sudan
#KeepEyesOnSudan
Al-Geneina RCs summarizes the situation in West #Darfur state in the past 3 years:

1) All kinds of #HumanRights violations were committed against civilians
2) Almost 1000 deaths, 100s of casualties
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#SudanCoup #Sudanese
#KeepEyesOnSudan #Sudan

facebook.com/37403372665618…
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3) 1000s of IDP/refugees

4) In 6 out of 8 municipalities scores of entire villages were completely burned down.

5) Economic losses in astronomical figures

6) Most IDP families & local industries are no longer productive
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#SudanCoup #Sudanese
#KeepEyesOnSudan #Sudan
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@RadioDabanga report:
Translation of the report below:
#Darfur
Thousands of Sudanese refugees who fled to eastern #Chad from Jebel Moon in West #Darfur state as a result of armed attacks on their villages, are calling for urgent humanitarian intervention to save their lives.
One of the refugees told Radio Dabanga that they lost all their property after armed men burned their villages, looted their properties and destroyed their farms.
He explained that they are now without shelter, food or even cover, especially with the severe cold waves these days.
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We are still so focused on crimes in Khartoum and this (useless) agreement that crimes in Darfur are going unnoticed.These people’s homes were burnt to ashes. At least 21 lives were lost.

This should have been the news headline not the agreement.
#مليونية21نوفمبر
#دارفور_تنزف
The details show that the two incidents were perpetrated by “armed groups.” Given yesterday’s agreement, we can expect a surge in armed group attacks because the junta are now fully in control. #Darfur #الردة_مستحيلة
The agreement allows the junta to ‘review/audit’ the work of the
anti-corruption/NCP dismantlement committee, which was working to uncover the junta’s ‘hidden’ sources of money. The assets were to be restored to the central bank to be used by the civilian arm of gov.#Darfur
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Are you ready for tomorrow #Sudan 🇸🇩?

These kids are!

#مليونية30اكتوبر
#Sudan 🇸🇩: the March of Millions has begun. In #Omdurman the masses are moving through the streets, making there way down to #Khartoum. #SudanCoup

#مليونية30اكتوبر
#Sudan 🇸🇩: protesters are marching down 16 Street in southern #Khartoum, on their way to meet thousands more, heading for the city center. #SudanCoup

#مليونية30اكتوبر
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(THREAD) The recent cycle of violence in Darfur illustrates what IDPs and rights groups warned against. My take on the events @hrw hrw.org/news/2021/01/2…
1/The UN moved forward with terminating the peacekeeping mission UNAMID end of 2020, despite mounting evidence on the uptick in intercommunal violence since last years: reports.unocha.org/en/country/sud…
2/Before the end of 2020, IDPs in Darfur protested against UNAMID's departure, demanded their voices to be heard. Neither Sudan or #UNSC listened. Sudan failed the test of their own pledge and Darfuris continued to pay the price. hrw.org/news/2021/01/0….
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#Sudan 🇸🇩 BREAKING: after 17 years of brutal war, famine, and genocide the Sudanese government and the #SRF rebels have signed a peace accord for the region of #Darfur.

Congratulations to the Sudanese people for achieving this massive step towards peace aje.io/nz66l
#Sudan 🇸🇩: although this agreement is a major step towards peace the war in #Darfur is not over yet. The smaller rebel splinter group SLA-AW is still in separate negotiations with the government and inter-communal violence remains one of the main causes of deaths
#Sudan 🇸🇩: another major step in the peace process. #SPLMN leader Abdalaziz Al-Hilu and PM @SudanPMHamdok have signed a joint declaration, agreeing on the principles of democracy, secularism and decentralization ImageImage
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Bij #NPO dramaserie over NL commando's. Dat is natuurlijk veel spannender dan wat echt aan de hand is in Nigeria, Burkina Faso en Ivoorkust. #journaal heeft al maanden niets meer gerapporteerd over ontwikkelingen mbt de mondiale jihad. acleddata.com/2020/08/24/in-…
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A local source in #Khoms reported that following disembarkation (70 people) a shooting happened — 5 people were shot, 2 died + other injured. Local IOM team was on the ground.

Survivors have been brought to Souq Al-Khamis detention centre, other escaped.
#Libya Staff from @IOM_Libya, reported that local authorities in #Khoms started shooting when the migrants attempted to escape from the disembarkation point.

Full statement iom.int/news/iom-deplo… Image
#Libya Aboh Ishag, 20 years old from #Darfur #Sudan killed in #Khoms after being intercepted & forcibly brought back by the Libyan coast guard equipped & financed by the EU. Killed as he refused to be taken back to a detention center where torture & exploitation are widespread. Image
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Thread👇- Excited to publish this latest collaboration between @amnesty and @elementai - Using artificial intelligence to scale up human rights research: a case study on Darfur w/ @alkalait and @BuffyPrice citizenevidence.org/2020/07/06/usi…
This work builds on early research by @JCornebise and @deworrall92 who in 2017 built a machine learning model which automatically detected “human presence,” as well as “destroyed” and “partially destroyed” villages in Darfur, Sudan.
aiforsocialgood.github.io/2018/pdfs/trac…
This research was possible thanks to thousands of digital volunteers who joined #AmnestyDecoders projects Decode Darfur and Decode the Difference, generating 13 million annotations of satellite images, covering 2.6 million satellite tiles.
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Tomorrow, June 30, streets all over #Sudan 🇸🇩 are expected to be flooded with protesters as opposition groups, civil society organisations and resistance committees have called on their followers to renew the energy of the 2019 Sudanese Revolution.

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#Sudan 🇸🇩: the capital city #Khartoum today.

The spirit of the 2019 Revolution has returned to the streets for a day.
#مليونيه30يونيو Image
#Sudan 🇸🇩: pro-democracy rally in te town of #Damazin, capital of #BlueNile state.

#مليونيه_30يونيو ImageImageImage
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#Libya In 2018, when I first met James, he had survived a Mediterranean shipwreck, been shot & spent years being abused & tortured. Two years later, I met him again.

📹James' journey back to #Nigeria & the harsh reality of return ImageImageImageImage
James was one of ~81,000 migrants returned home by @UNmigration sponsored by @EU_Commission.

What about people retuned to #Sudan?

Mohi, after 3 years in #Libya, returned to #Darfur. Once back, his package never materialised.

Only 766 out of +2,600 have received economic aid. Image
More about returns from #Libya

Sandrine, Rachel & Berline, from #Cameroon, agreed to go back to #Yaounde in 2018.

When I met them moments before boarding a flight in #Misrata airport, they had no idea where they would sleep when they returned to Cameroon. Image
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(1/10) This is a report card on #Eritrea Prez Isaias Afwerki considered by himself & NNNN as a political architect of the Horn of Africa. From #Somalia, #Sudan, #SouthSudan, #Djibouti, to #Ethiopia, he has wasted #Eritrean treasury grooming satellite orgs. All for nothing.
(2/10) #SouthSudan: The #SPLA had members who were for secession & members for reforming Sudan and remaining part of it. Despite Isaias Afwerki's cries, the secessionist won and they proved it in a referendum where 99% voted for independence. Isaias didn't attend the ceremony.
(3/10) #Darfur Sudan: Although #Eritrea has no border with West Sudan, Isaias inserted himself &, along with #Qatar (now enemy state) conducted a long and useless effort, including hosting armed Darfuri rebels. In the intra #Sudan reconciliation now, he has no role or influence.
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#Sudan 🇸🇩 BREAKING: the Sudanese transitional government has announced it will hand over Omar al-Bashir to the ICC, on the charges of war crimes & crimes against humanity in #Darfur Image
Today is a great day for all victims of the #Bashir regime.
-the 100.000s who starved in southern Sudan
-the countless who were killed & attacked with chemical weapons in Darfur
-the Nuba children, targeted every day by antonovs
-the brave protesters gunned down in the streets ImageImageImageImage
And of course this day is also a message to those who think the day will never come Image
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This could be huge! Victims have been waiting for justice for widespread atrocities committed in #Darfur for 15+ years. Keen to have more details on plans for #Bashir to at last face the #ICC charges against him. Some further info on case at @hrw: hrw.org/news/2019/05/0…
@hrw I first began working on the campaign to see perpetrators of widespread crimes in #Darfur held to account in 2004 as @HRW continued to document the extreme brutality against civilians: hrw.org/news/2004/09/2…
@hrw It was time when the prospect of the #UNSC coming together to ensure justice for the gravest crimes at the #ICC was more on the table than in recent years. (see: hrw.org/news/2014/05/2…). But given the #US anti-ICC position, it was far from a foregone conclusion.
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Here is UN briefing room Inner City Press is banned from for 583d day by UNSG @AntonioGuterres - Farhan Haq just ended his pathetic briefing at 12:13 pm, has not answered questions about UN rapes, now complicit. Here's Qs Inner City Press has submitted - thread
@antonioguterres @MatthewLeeICP @FUNCA_info @silas_atefor @AdamShawNY @SaraCarterDC @kristina_wong @allimadi @CathyCathyFox Banned Inner City Press asked, the Deputy Spokesman should provide the "if asked" info about the new sex abuse cases data dumped on Feb 4, two hours before SG Guterres' presser, UN rape in #Darfur and CAR, sex abuse by Uganda "peacekeeper" in #SouthSudan. #2Days
@antonioguterres @MatthewLeeICP @FUNCA_info @silas_atefor @AdamShawNY @SaraCarterDC @kristina_wong @allimadi @CathyCathyFox Banned Inner City Press asked, On Nigeria what are the comments of SG Guterres & @AminaJMohammed on that lawyer Goodness Ibangah who on a rape report resisted pressure from the police to withdraw the complaint; they raided the office of WACOL and attacked her?
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Here is the UN briefing room for the noon briefing Inner City Press is banned from by corrupt UNSG @AntonioGuterres for 563rd day. It has emailed 10 Qs including on newly data dumped UN rape in Darfur, #Cameroon, corporate UN - no answers. Thread
@antonioguterres @MatthewLeeICP @FUNCA_info @silas_atefor @AdamShawNY @SaraCarterDC @kristina_wong @allimadi Banned Inner City Press has asked January Immediately provide the if-asked info for the UN rape in #Darfur data dumped this morning, or explain why you cover up UN sex abuse even more than Ban Ki-moon (who did provide the Press with if-asked information) did
@antonioguterres @MatthewLeeICP @FUNCA_info @silas_atefor @AdamShawNY @SaraCarterDC @kristina_wong @allimadi @AndrewMMacLeod @rebeccarat @AntoniaMiran @Ariana_Tobin @sudanreeves Banned Inner City Press On corporate domination of the UN under SG @AntonioGuterres, what is his justification of the Strategic Partnership Agreement between WEF (Davos) and the UN?
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