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