The latest hot topic happening in the medical world of Sudan is the recent closure of Khartoum Paediatric Hospital Jaafar Ibnaouf’s emergency room and transforming the hospital into a tertiary specialised referral hospital. This post isn’t about the injustice of this decision, because you don’t need a blog post to talk about that when it’s […]
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This emoticon has the most useful expression ever. Fits me perfectly. If you know me in person, you have most probably called me (or at least thought of me as) saghaeela at least once in your life. Sagheela is سغيلة/ثقيلة, a word that literally translates into ‘heavy’ and is used to describe someone who lacks
Although we still have a couple of weeks to go, 2012 has been probably the most interesting year so far. A year of discovery, of endurance, and of baby-steps towards modest accomplishments. 2009 and 2010 were quite interesting as well (first paid job, lots of travelling, and the most important experience of my life: Hajj),
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There’s been this whole hubbub about some line connecting Khartoum to Heathrow being stolen. I really couldn’t understand what that was about. I thought it refers to something rather than actually meaning something. But apparently, that’s just what it is. The line connecting Khartoum to Heathrow was stolen by some invisible ninja, and sold to
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The other day I was with my cousin, a lawyer and PhD holder with a special interest in children’s rights. She was preparing a paper about the impact of armed conflict on children, to be presented in a conference, and wanted to include an interview with a street child coming from the war zone. We
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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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My sister was sitting up in her bedroom one day working on something or another, with the windows open and the sounds of the street outside floating in with the afternoon breeze. The sounds of dogs barking, leaves rustling and children playing. A group of the latter were in close proximity to our house, and
As it is impossible to come to Sudan without brushing with the reality of the current situation, I found myself at one point floundering in the public transport system for a week (after regressing from driving our air conditioned family car, to a small amjad with my friends, to finally roaming the streets and bus
Rifling through the trash A question that baffles me. Just by looking at these people you can tell what kind of situation the country is going through; everywhere are men, women and children forced to take to the streets to try and secure some kind of income. And they don’t complain. About ANYTHING. These are
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