This is a thread explaining the military significance of the Army taking control of the Refinery complex. 🧵

The Khartoum Refinery complex is the most valuable piece of State infrastructure in Khartoum State but it will possibly be years before it’s back and contributing to the economy; so why does control of an incapacitated refinery matter so much to this war?

The Refinery maters primarily not because of what it is but because of where it is. It sits on the main highway connecting Khartoum State with both North and East Sudan. And with the Army also liberating Bahri City to the South; it means that the interim Capital of Port Sudan is

I’m going to try and explain why control of Wad Madani is so vitally important and why the exuberant celebrations you are seeing across Sudan are justified. A thread 🧵

The Wad Madani city locality is ordinarily home to 700,000 people its liberation is a huge deal for its people, of-course but its strategic importance means today’s liberation is significant for the entirety of the 50 million people who live in Sudan.
Wad Madani isn’t just the capital of Gezira State, it’s the HQ for administering the Gezira Scheme which is the backbone of Sudan’s agricultural sector.
RSF control of Gezira State lead to the first comprehensive failure of the scheme since it was established a century ago.

Thread 🧵A question I’ve seen asked many times is why do RSF militiamen routinely film their own atrocities. The explanation for why comes down primarily to two factors. The first is that the militia has fully ideologically justified its crimes to the point that not only are militiamen not ashamed of their deeds they are actually proud of them. The second factor centres around the wide lack of accountability that the RSF militia faces.
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RSF militiamen have several overlapping ideologies to morally justify their crimes against civilians. The most dangerous of which being the racial superiority ideology that the militia has primarily utilised to justify its genocide of Non Arab ethnicities in Darfur.

🧵This is a thread on UAE’s illicit Arms supply operation to its proxy RSF militia; which is currently committing genocide in Sudan amongst other mass atrocities.

The UAE’s UN representative starts of his speech by gaslighting the chamber claiming what they are delivering is aid to Sudan. We know this to be a lie; the UAE has consistently used promises of Aid to cover up its arms supply operation to the proxy genocidal RSF militia it is sponsoring in Sudan.
The first clear evidence of this emerged when Ugandan customs inspectors found that a plane that was documented as carrying humanitarian aid for Sudanese refugees was in fact carrying weapons. After that incident senior Ugandan officials ordered cargo inspectors not to inspect UAE cargo planes heading to Chad. This report by Africa stream details what happened.
#Sudan On the 22nd June last year the RSF militia captured the city of El Geniena in West Darfur from the Sudanese Army. The RSF militia (which identifies as Arab) immediately turned to massacring the city’s male civilian population before they could escape. They Massacred 8,000 men and boys from the African (sedentary) Masalit tribe in a genocidal atrocity on the scale of Srebrenica (Bosnian Genocide). Masalit mothers fleeing Al Geniena dressed up their baby boys as girls so RSF militiamen would not kill them if found. Hundreds of thousands of Masalit people who survived fled to Eastern Chad.
Rather than being horrified by its proxy militia’s atrocities in West Darfur, the UAE saw an opportunity to up its arms supply again under the guise of humanitarian aid!
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Thread explaining the #Sudan /Ethiopia Border conflict.The Main area of conflict is Little Fashga that borders Amhara region and to a lesser extent Greater Fashga that borders Tigray. Little Fashga is the triangle of land between the Atbara river,Angereb river & Ethiopia’s border While Greater Fashga is the triangle of land between the Angereb River, the tekeze (Setit) River & Ethiopian border. I describe this as a border conflict rather than a border dispute because the #Sudan Ethiopia border is fully demarcated. There’s no legitimate doubt that

Ive serious worries about the RSF providing public services. Firstly from a PR point of view its disastrously effective. Not only does it help whitewash their image it undermines critical voices to them, because predictably we’ll oppose the growth of the RSF (1/3)
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https://twitter.com/3ozaz/status/1175105995737055232

Now to a lot in Sudan, particularly in rural areas this looks like we don’t want to the RSF to provide services like healthcare etc.This simultaneously improves the image of the RSF while damaging the image of its critics. Many won’t won’t understand why we oppose
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Victory or Egypt was the warning. That we must be careful to learn lessons from Egypt’s failed revolution النصر أو مصر
But the warning should’ve been Victory or Sudan more specifically old Sudan. Sudan’s history has been destructively playing on loop for 60 yrs
#SudanUprising The cycle begins with the Military making a pact with a political power base to rule Sudan. In 1958 General Abboud makes a pact between the Army & the tribal political sects of the Ansar & Al Khatmiya
In 1969 Colonel Nimeri makes a pact with leftist politicians
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1. Sudan’s economic crisis is a severe supply side crisis which the regime has tried to tackle by boosting consumption. The women in this video tells that oranges sell for the equivalent of 0.3 USD that is a price comparable to what you would pay in the UK
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https://twitter.com/AyinSudan/status/1152300539415281664

2. A country with high labour costs due to a per capita income now 40 times higher than Sudan’s that has to import oranges, that has one of the highest fuel duties in the world making transportation extremely expensive should not be able to match Sudan on the price of agri goods