“Even though it has been a year, there is still a sense of whiplash, of disbelief that it has actually happened, is actually happening.” Nesrine Malik on the war first anniversary. She can’t be more accurate in describing the sense of Sudanese!

#KeepEyesOnSudan
Marking the first anniversary of conflict, Dr. Haitham Mohamed Awadallah, the acting Federal Minister of Health, calls for urgent action to combat malnutrition in Sudan. #SudanHumanitarianCrisis

Call to save lives of children and mothers
“Together we can…

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It has been a year since fighting erupted between the army and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) group in Sudan, killing nearly 16,000 people and causing a devastating humanitarian crisis.

We look at the situation one year on ⤵️

🔗: aje.io/92022k

For a full year, the bodies have piled up in Sudan – and still the world looks away | Nesrine Malik | The Guardian theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

A year on, the war in Sudan continues to rage.

Despite the magnitude of the crisis, funding remains critically low.

For #SudanConference  today, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency urges the international community to step up the response for +8.6 million people displaced in the region

#KeepEyesOnSudan

#Sudan Conference | From 9:30 a.m., see the joint press conference of Stéphane Séjourné, @Abaerbock, @JanezLenarcicune at the International Humanitarian Conference for #Sudan and its Neighbours.

It's common for perpetrators to admit to atrocities that are impossible to deny - but carefully framed as 'tragic episodes' that are blamed entirely on 'rogue elements' or 'bad apples'.*

You admit to a single incident only to protect the system.

*Amritsar, My Lai, Abu Ghraib

20 years later, Abu Ghraib detainees get their day in US court apnews.com/article/abu-gh…

Bowen: As Israel debates Iran attack response, can US and allies stop slide into all-out war? bbc.co.uk/news/world-mid…

One of the main reasons renewable energy is going to triumph in the end is, IMO, not well understood by the general populace, so here's a quick 🧵on it.

Over time, the price of fossil fuels is determined by two forces pulling in opposite directions. On one hand ...

Excellent analysis by Aoife Nolan Aoife Nolan on 'Inter-generational Equity, Future Generations and Democracy in the European Court of Human Rights’ Klimaseniorinnen Decision' ejiltalk.org/inter-generati…

A necessity of self-defense, instant, overwhelming, leaving no choice of means, and no moment of deliberation or whatever this is.

‘An Israeli person familiar with government deliberations said that the decision facing the five-person war cabinet, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, was whether to “go big” against Iran or to respond in a more measured way.’ ft.com/content/1b9b50…

Guterres invokes the UN Charter prohibition of force, the inviolability of diplomatic premises, and the prohibition of armed reprisals.

Time to step back from the brink.

Renews call for ceasefire in Gaza, hostage release.

My Channel 4 News piece on the background to the #IranAttack on #Israel . This has been a long time in coming..

I’ve been waiting for this book by Zeinab Badawi for years. We spoke about it some time ago when she was doing the research & I was thrilled to see that African history was finally being considered - in the West - from an African perspective. #AfricanHistory #ZeinabBadawi #BLM

NEW: Richard Black, a man who was stranded in the Caribbean for over 40 years because of the Windrush scandal, finally returned to Britain this morning. I headed to Gatwick Airport earlier to witness this moment. independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…

Our new paper
(Is a bit philosophical in places):

What is quality in long covid care? Lessons from a national quality improvement collaborative and multi-site ethnography | BMC Medicine bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

State Reactions to Iran's drone attack against Israel🧵

I’m not sure the average person gets just how anti-war the UN Charter is and how at odds with its principles the practice of most states that use force in their int’l relations is, Western or not. You can see that as idealistic and pointless but I think it’s good we have it