Sudan from Reem’s Perspective
Written for African Feminism with Omnia Shawkat Country-wide peaceful demonstrations against the regime in Sudan are in their second month, with over 50 people reported dead, dozens more maimed and wounded and hundreds detained by the regime. Sudan has been a country resisting the totalitarian rule of President Omar El Bashir for 3 decades now. After […]
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Originally published on 27/10/2019 on LinkedIn I just finished reading an interesting article by Ashley Eva Millar and Malan Rietveld titled ‘Natural Resources: A blessing or a curse?’ as part of my research for a paper we are writing. The article discusses the apparently negative relationship between a country’s possession of natural resources and its economic success. The theory in a nut-shell
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There is a lot going on in the land of the Nile these days: war drums in the east with Eritrea, 100% rise in the price of bread and electricity with subsequent protests, arrests and killings, and the usual diplomatic squabble with Egypt over something or another. And in the middle of this arises a
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The big news these days is the lifting of the US sanctions that were placed on Sudan 20+ years ago. Everyone is talking about – actually, have been talking about it for several months now. But there are such mixed opinions and feelings about whether they should have been lifted or kept in place, with
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Originally published in ElleAfrique Magazine The young lady delicately adjusted her multicoloured tob and dabbed at her multicoloured face, looked down at her notes, and cleared her throat. ‘These days, doctora,’ she chirped at her middle-aged scholarly guest, ‘we bear witness to a certain phenomenon, a phenomenon which is alien to our society.’ ‘Yes,’ the doctor gravely agreed. ‘This
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Published in ElleAfrique Magazine Sudan has a long history of women in leading positions in the political as well as social arena. Ancient history speaks of queens reigning over kingdoms past, such as Nubia and Kush. Modern history celebrates the likes of Alazza Mohamed Abdallah, the first woman to lead a political rally in its
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Source: www.UNDP.org Originally published in ElleAfrique Magazine Female genital mutilation is one those terrifying realities that is still practiced openly today, mainly in Africa and parts of Asia, although globalization and massive migration has carried the practice to parts of Europe, Australia and the Americas. Its right up there with child brides and burying female
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Salah Mudathir Sanhouri, a young pharmacist with a well-known family name, has become more or less the revolution’s poster boy, or as is more fit to say: Sudan’s Buazizi. His death was not the first of some 200+ deaths, but it was by the far the most penetrating. The Sanhouri clan is famous for its
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Source: Facebook.com/Sudanese-Memes People keep asking me why on earth I came back to Sudan. And by people, I mean every single person who comes across this piece of information. People who don’t even know me (which is never a deterrent for Sudanese people). I find it tiresome, trying to convince them that this was a
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You need to read Part One to make sense of this post by the way. Anyway. I don’t have much to say in this post. My dad did all the remaining procedures for me so I’m not sure exactly what steps were taken. I do know that the previously obtained documents were sent to the
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