Drought Meets War: Sudan’s Race to Prevent Famine Before the Lean Season
Sudan's worst rainy season in decades has collided with a war in its fourth year. The coming months are the last window to prevent a wider…
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Columns & Writing
An ongoing record of political analysis, conflict commentary, and literary writing.
When the Sky Becomes the Front Line: Why Any Sudan Truce Must Start With Drones
Drone strikes killed at least 306 people in Sudan in three weeks of October 2026, according to the UN. Any humanitarian truce should begin with a…
Read the columnChronicling and Treason-Branding
History records every crime committed against the Sudanese people. Abeer Yasir writes on the war's destruction and on the habit of branding one another traitors, which…
Read the columnArmies and the Existential Threat to Sudan
A state falls once it loses its monopoly on the legitimate means of violence. Abeer Yasir argues that the coexistence of multiple armies with divergent loyalties…
Read the columnWomen’s Contributions to Peacebuilding
How women advance peace — decision-making, awareness, local mediation, support for victims — and the discrimination that still constrains that work.
Read the columnMultiplicity of Armies: An Existential Threat to Sudan?
Argues that Sudan's deepest danger is not contested legitimacy but the coexistence of multiple armed forces with divergent loyalties inside one territory.
Read the columnAnimal Farm: When the Faces Change but Oppression Remains King — From Orwell to Sudan
Reads Orwell's allegory against Sudan's own revolutionary cycles — concluding that Sudan did not merely read Animal Farm, it lived it.
Read the columnChronicling in a Time of Treason-Branding
A reflection on the war's toll on Khartoum, North Kordofan, and Darfur — and a critique of the national habit of branding one another traitors.
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