TWEET: Instead of being the breadbasket of northern Africa, #Sudan imports over $1 billion in wheat a year. The agricultural sector is collapsing because of failure to invest in critical infrastructure (e.g., irrigation). Yet the NIF/NCP regime and its cronies continue to enrich themselves.
Waiting for meaningful international protection from rape, sexual violence
TWEET: #Rape and sexual violence in #Darfur: the unending epidemic of horror for girls and women. See “Continuing Mass Rape of Girls in Darfur: The most heinous crime generates no international outrage, 2015 – 2016” | wp.me/p45rOG-1QG / Arabic translation: wp.me/p45rOG-1Rr
TWEET: Torture remains an essential tool of tyranny and repression for the NIF/NCP Khartoum regime. AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL has designated NASRELDIN MUKHTAR MOHAMMED ABDALLAH a focus for its URGENT ACTION NETWORK. See: https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/afr54/7489/2017/en/
TWEET: #Darfur: The obstruction of UNAMID by Khartoum—a constant since the Mission deployed (Jan. 2008)—will only increase as UNAMID continues to withdraw. The Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) signed by the regime—and AU and UN—has, unsurprisingly, meant nothing. Shameful acquiescence…
TWEET: “South Kordofan/Blue Nile Coordinating Unit, Humanitarian Update | October 2017”—news that comes from no other source, even as the international community permits the Khartoum regime to continue its six-year barbaric humanitarian blockade on the Two Areas: http://wp.me/p45rOG-29I
Asim Omar, Darfuri student framed for murder of Khartoum policeman
TWEET: Non-Arab/African people from #Darfur—increasingly numerous in Khartoum—face continual discrimination & abuse on the basis of their ethnicity. The case of #Asim #Omar has become notorious over the past year. His execution will produce firestorms of protest—and violent repression:
TWEET: A New report from the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre and Norwegian Refugee Council indicates almost 100,000 #Sudanese were newly displaced by violence in 2016—the vast majority of them non-Arab/African populations in #Darfur, yet again victims of Khartoum-orchestrated violence:
