So grateful to Sonja J Miley & Maddy Crowther at Waging Peace 🧡 for speaking to us about the conflict & their work with refugees & to Mark Townsend for sharing his insight into his recent trip to Chad. Read his article here: google.com/amp/s/amp.theg…

#Sudan

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The latest conflict has plunged Sudan into 'one of the worst humanitarian nightmares in recent history'.

We speak to Mark Townsend, a senior global development reporter at the The Guardian on what he's seen.

We also speak to the Co-Directors at Waging Peace 🧡

Great to work with Rebecca Rosman for The World @PRX on a story asking the important question of why those claiming asylum & seeking safety from #Sudan in the UK are not treated the same as those from Ukraine: theworld.org/media/2023-07-… Have a listen! 🎧 🗣️ IMIX 🧡 #KeepEyesonSudan

Thanks to amelia gentleman. UK govt need to expedite family reunion applications from Sudanese nationals & expand definition to include immediate adult relatives. At Waging Peace 🧡 we speak to those whose applications are delayed who are sleepless with worry for their loved ones.

Institute for Strategic Dialogue @aoifegall ➡️martiny.bsky.social⬅️ S. Lawrence I wrote for the The Guardian about the threat anti-drag activism poses in the UK, a country with centuries of history of drag and cross-dressing as cultural expression for all ages. We still have time to push back on this hateful anti-LGBTQ+ campaign. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Good to see our partner organisations, Waging Peace 🧡 and Protection Approaches, raise the current situation in Sudan at the Foreign Affairs Select Committee yesterday. It is important to #KeepEyesOnSudan .

‘Ferguson argues that the UK government could have done more to focus on atrocity prevention and conduct better risk assessment.’

She sure does.

#KeepEyesOnSudan #KeepEyesOnSudan

Cc Maddy Crowther Waging Peace 🧡 Protection Approaches Alicia Kearns MP Foreign Affairs Committee

Watch Waging Peace 🧡 and Kate Ferguson speak to the Foreign Affairs Committee yesterday. It's 45 minutes you will not regret: a forensic exposure of everything wrong with the UK's approach to Sudan and more broadly atrocities, violence, fragility & preparedness

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More coverage of yesterday’s Foreign Affairs Committee urgent session on Sudan - with quotes from Maddy Crowther Alicia Kearns MP and yours truly. #KeepEyesOnSudan

.Maddy Crowther: People were saying transitional agreement was problematic for a long time. Anyone critical of framework agreement was dismissed, ignored or told they were not optimistic as they should be - they were excluded. UK should speak to different groups, accept plurality

.Chris Bryant asks whether 97% aid cuts for Sudan was wise?

.Maddy Crowther: we coordinate a WG of those who work in/on Sudan and they weren’t offered with clear logic as to why cuts were being made or impact it would have on people.

.Maddy Crowther: Other than warnings, UK FO put all eggs in the framework agreement. Misguided hope that the generals wil give up power, esp. in light of civil society warnings they were leaving Khartoum because they smell war in the air. How did FO not see the warning signs?

.Maddy Crowther from Waging Peace 🧡 warns Darfur can’t be seen as separate from what’s happening in Khartoum. The scale of the violence is truly catastrophic - hearing from UK Sudanese community on Sunday, people had 8 or 10 or 5 family members each die in Darfur.

.Maddy Crowther / Waging Peace 🧡 closing asks:

It’s world refugee day. Protection of Sudanese people can begin at home; the UK can better discharge responsibilities towards them, hear their claims fairly, with better packages of inclusion and support incl. if they were evacuated

Four years ago, nearly to the day, Maddy Crowther & I told the Foreign Office to prioritse its atrocity prevention capabilties in Sudan

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Today we're giving evidence to the Foreign Affairs Committee on the dreadful, forseeable crisis unfolding

Tune in at 3pm

Today Protection Approaches's Kate Ferguson will give evidence to Foreign Affairs Committee on the crisis in Sudan, part of the brilliant line up below.

Read the #UKMAprev Working Group letter released today to inform discussions - covered in The Guardian: theguardian.com/world/2023/jun…

Tune in from 3pm 👇

Foreign Office accused of ignoring Sudan atrocity warnings

Exclusive: Charities and civil groups say FO pursued an over-optimistic agenda of ‘democracy first’ in Sudan

Thanks to Patrick Wintour for covering our #UKMAprev Working Group letter

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🗓️ On Tuesday 20 June, we are holding an oral evidence session on the situation in Sudan.

Our panels are:
1⃣ Maddy Crowther , Kate Ferguson and Bushra Rahama Hudocentre

2⃣ Mohammed H. al-Ta’ishi , Mohamed Osman and Emma DiNapoli

Watch live from 3pm 👇
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In April we expanded our team to bring on board 2 wonderful new joiners as Welcome & Wellbeing Support Coordinators. Join us in welcoming Shahd & Abd Alraheem! We'll give a little bio on each now, so you can get to know them better. Our full team info: wagingpeace.info/our-team/

I spoke to Dan Sabbagh about the lack of safe & legal routes for those fleeing the #Sudan Crisis & ways in which the UK government's plans & #illegalmigrationbill will criminalise individuals #KeepEyesOnSudan #Sudan #Sudan _updates