Exclusive: People who escaped the armed conflict in Sudan reflect on their experiences and desire to return home
Seeing the woman who inspired me and thousands of people, be they human rights activists or law abiding citizens, was a majestic moment for me.
Every year, when a Seed-Ahmed memorial event happened in Khartoum or other cities, it would be prohibited or raided by the police.
"We enter the university with pens and notepads, but from now on we will enter with machetes to protect ourselves."
The National Congress Party (NCP) came to power in 1989, and since then it has brainwashed and desensitized the masses to the point of no return.
A story by Fatin Abbas. Part of a series of of poems and short stories by African feminist writers for 16 Days of Activism against Gender Violence.
In Sudan, you don't have to be in the war zones to meet a rebel.
They pressured his father into revealing his whereabouts, warning that otherwise they would also arrest his younger brother M.
Everything has an interest rate and if you don't pay on time, as the Sudanese state and most of the population have discovered, the price goes up.
A week after Israel allegedly bombed an arms factory in Sudan, one thing is clear; there is more public anger towards the government than Israel.
In Sudan, the state security apparatus has adopted a new habit: confiscating and banning books. Authors and rights activists are rightly outraged, but this is helping the growth of a new reading culture in Khartoum.
During the June protests, the women of Sudan led many of the demonstrations and a call for a nation-wide “Kandaka Friday” was made on July 13. The term was used by the Kushites to refer to their queens.
