Surrounded by fighters, filled with displaced people and haunted by famine, a city in Sudan is bracing for the worst. “On the precipice of a large scale massacre,” said a senior US official. nytimes.com/2024/04/29/wor…

“Everyone is expecting an attack at any moment. It seems inevitable.” Frightening warning for the coming fight for El Fasher from ⁦Declan Walsh⁩ nytimes.com/2024/04/29/wor…

Visual evidence and internal communications show that before the strike on World Central Kitchen, multiple aid operations and local staff shelters in Gaza had come under Israeli fire — even after the I.D.F. was notified of the locations and logged them as humanitarian sites.…

I end all my courses by singing with my students. Had a wonderful term. I love being a teacher.

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

It began in brutal earnest thirty years ago today. I remember the the smell, the decomposing dead, the survivors, the fear, the abandonment, the lessons never learned, those days that seem like yesterday #Rwanda

Rwanda’s leader, Paul Kagame, has made impressive gains since the devastating genocide that started 30 years ago this weekend. But he’s done it with increasingly repressive methods - and the ethnic divide the president claims to have banished endures in his own system of rule.…

NEW: Israel gets $3.8 billion annually of US taxpayer money for weapons. Israel buys the types of bombs dropped in Gaza — including 2,000-pound ones. Biden keeps it flowing. Our The New York Times deep dive into the pipeline and its secrets. w/ Michael Crowley: nytimes.com/2024/04/06/us/…

There was a time when it was nearly impossible to take a detailed critical look at Kagame's Rwanda in the New York Times. Very good read by Declan Walsh nytimes.com/2024/04/06/wor…

Rwanda’s leader, Paul Kagame, has made impressive gains since the devastating genocide that started 30 years ago this weekend. But he’s done it with increasingly repressive methods - and the ethnic divide the president claims to have banished endures in his own system of rule.…

And! The Guardian appoints new correspondents in the Caribbean, South America, Africa and the UK, boosting its coverage of underreported communities theguardian.com/gnm-press-offi…

Incredible new resource, please subscribe! Since October last year atar network has published cutting-edge, long-form, in-depth investigative reports and commentary from across #Sudan - in Arabic. Today, the first English issue is out. Incredibly rich accounts of everyday life!

Browsing through a bookstore today, it struck me (again) that a Pakistan without either #Herald or #Newsline is a much poorer place. #Sad .

'It's been very frustrating for us because we have food outside on the border of Egypt and Jordan [...] we would be able to feed 2.2 million people for three or four months like that,” McCain said.

“We have the food ready to go in, we just can't get in.”

First good news out of Egypt in a LONG time. GoE has finally closed Case 173, a ludicrous 13-year-long investigation of civil society for 'foreign funding' AKA repressive pressure on HRDs. Nothing there (of course). So happy for colleagues to have this burden lifted. مبروك🎊🎊🎊

Concerns are mounting in South Sudan over a rupture to an oil pipeline in neighbouring Sudan located in an active conflict zone. Crude exports from South Sudan have dried up as a result, a worrying development considering how oil dependent the gov’t is.
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Today I'm going to look at representations of Ireland and Irishness from around the world, especially those which aren't well-known in Ireland.

Elders’ Chair Mary Robinson says President Biden should not continue to provide arms to Israel.

“The United States can influence Israel by not continuing to provide arms… The Government of Prime Minister Netanyahu is on the wrong side of history, completely. It’s making the…

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