THREAD: This thread discusses the December 2020 forced expulsion of people inhabiting farming communities in a disputed border area claimed by both Ethiopia 🇪🇹 and Sudan🇸🇩. #Osint data appears to suggest that Sudanese troops may have carried out atrocities when it removed hundreds if not thousands of Ethiopians from the Al Fashaga triangle. Nobody has properly documented the expulsions and there's not enough evidence to draw conclusions.
Marc Owen Jones (a source for scams & info wars on social media - why do I care? I want accurate info on Sudan) 1) So @MuhammedKambal and @khalidalbaih raised concerns about a piece of sketchy news being shared by pro-RSF accounts in #Sudan. The news claims to be from a site called @EuroPostAgency The site is clearly part of a #disinformation network. I will highlight some things > thread see comments @sudan https://twitter.com/marcowenjones/status/1696226892473344495?s=12&t=hyoAMs8PWd6aaa6C0U6GPQ
France is evacuating citizens from 41 countries. Ukraine is evacuating people from other countries including Georgia and Peru. Britain is only evacuating British citizens. Britain has shrunk so, so far in the world.
Well, the ceasefire in #Sudan collapsed within hours. War has resumed. Today, the BBC confirmed that 8 Ethiopian citizens are among the dead. The dead were hit by stray bullets, shrapnel or shelling in the capital Khartoum. Ethiopia meanwhile, has become an evacuation hub, with thousands of Turkish, Sudanese, Somalis and Europeans landing in the country in recent days.
This report is from the BBC's Amharic (widely spoken in Ethiopia) language service.
I’m seeing folks from #Sudan on #twitter despairing that the site’s new limits, and its general m*sk-era brokenness, will compromise their ability to stay updated on the catastrophe unfolding in their homeland and share emergency info.
Once more: mastodon/fediverse needs to think seriously about how to expand to users in Asia and Africa and how to handle emergencies #twitterdown
UN aid chief says 730,000 Sudanese children are thought to suffer from ‘severe’ malnutrition.N early five million people in Sudan are at risk of “catastrophic” hunger in the coming months, the United Nations has warned, calling for the country’s warring parties to allow aid deliveries....
10 days into the conflict between Sudan's national military and paramilitary forces, the factions have agreed to a 72 hour ceasefire which appears to be holding, unlike previous attempts at a ceasefire. Ceasefire was mediated over by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken. Foreign states want to use this to ramp up the evacuation of their nationals.
Will this lead to concrete talks between the warring factions?
Ukrainian special services may have been responsible for a military operation against a Wagner-backed militia in Sudan, according to a CNN investigation published Sept. 19.
22 days of madness. 22 days of needless carnage between Sudanese government forces and RSF paramilitary forces.
Finally, on day 22, the warring factions have met face to face in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, in talks mediated over by both 🇸🇦 and 🇺🇸 that are seen by the international community and many Sudanese, as the only possible hope for a permanent end to hostilities that have killed over 550 people and displaced hundreds of thousands.
The United Nations said Tuesday the surging violence in Sudan is likely to drive more than 1 million refugees out of the African country by October, as the 10-week conflict shows few signs of easing.
(Eigener Bericht) – Auch nach dem Abschluss eines Deals mit der EU zur Flüchtlingsabwehr lässt Tunesiens Regierung Hunderte Flüchtlinge in die Wüste deportieren. Wie tunesische #Menschenrechtler berichten, sind am vergangenen Freitag mindestens 300 Flüchtlinge aus #Tunis in die #Wüste an der tunesisch-algerischen Grenze abgeschoben worden – ohne #Wasser und #Nahrung. Als EU-Kommissionspräsidentin Ursula von der #Leyen am 16. Juli 2023 den #Flüchtlingsabwehrdeal mit dem tunesischen Präsidenten unterzeichnete, waren gerade 1.200 Flüchtlinge in die Wüste an der tunesisch-libyschen Grenze deportiert worden; mindestens 27 von ihnen verdursteten. Die EU belohnt #Tunesien für die #Flüchtlingsabwehr mit dreistelligen Millionensummen. Scharfe Kritik wird nun auch an dem neuen Flüchtlingsabwehrdeal laut, den die EU in der vergangenen Woche mit dem #Libanon geschlossen hat. Er sieht wie die Flüchtlingsabwehrdeals mit Tunesien und mit #Ägypten die Zahlung hoher Summen an die libanesische Regierung vor. Im Gegenzug soll #Beirut die Reise syrischer Flüchtlinge nach #Zypern unterbinden. Ägypten schiebt Flüchtlinge nach Abschluss eines Deals mit der EU sogar ins #sudanesische #Kriegsgebiet ab.
Can you recommend accounts by activists and journalists on the ground in #Sudan? Preferably posting in English, but I am also happy with machine-translated Arabic.
RT @CrimethInc
"Today, Sudanese anarchists and other demonstrators confronted the forces of the military dictatorship in Omdurman, Bahri, Khartoum, and East Nile. The demonstrators brought banners adorned with portraits of those who have been killed in the course of the struggle, which has been going on for years now."
For background:
Anarchists against the Military Dictatorship
An Interview with Sudanese Anarchists Gathering
Every two hours, a child dies in Sudan. Our global silence is deafening. (www.usatoday.com)
The suffering of the Sudanese may be off camera now, but it won't be in a few months when babies are starving en masse.
UN warns five million could suffer ‘catastrophic’ hunger in Sudan amid war (www.aljazeera.com)
UN aid chief says 730,000 Sudanese children are thought to suffer from ‘severe’ malnutrition.N early five million people in Sudan are at risk of “catastrophic” hunger in the coming months, the United Nations has warned, calling for the country’s warring parties to allow aid deliveries....
CNN: Military source says Ukraine 'likely' behind strike on Wagner forces in Sudan (kyivindependent.com)
Ukrainian special services may have been responsible for a military operation against a Wagner-backed militia in Sudan, according to a CNN investigation published Sept. 19.
Sudan violence likely to push over 1 million refugees out of the African country by October, UN says (www.aol.com)
The United Nations said Tuesday the surging violence in Sudan is likely to drive more than 1 million refugees out of the African country by October, as the 10-week conflict shows few signs of easing.