Africa

Sudan: 70% of Hospitals not Working as Army and Rapid Support Forces Militia Continue Fierce Battles

( Middle East Monitor ) – The Sudan Doctors’ Union said yesterday that 70 per cent of hospitals are not operational in the areas where fighting is taking place between the army and the Rapid Support Forces. The union pointed out that there are “62 hospitals suspended from service, and 27 hospitals fully or partially […]

Africa

Dear Ron DeSantis: Consider all the Valuable Skills the Enslaved Taught Cracker Slave-Holders (For Which they were never Paid)

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The new Florida history curriculum on slavery says that some enslaved persons learned skills while enslaved that later benefited them, provoking shock and outrage across the nation. One of the things that is wrong with this way of looking at the issue is the white nationalist assumption that white slavers […]

Africa

Hey Jason Aldean: All Humans owe their Big Brains and Survival as a Species to Afro-Textured Hair

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Afro-textured hair has been a frequent object of racist denigration. In April 2007 radio shock jock Don Imus got himself fired for referring to the Rutgers women’s basketball team as “nappy-headed ho’s.” Those formidable women, both scholars and athletes performing at a level Imus could never hope to, did not […]

Africa

‘Life for black people in Tunisia 5 months after the President’s racist Speech has been incredibly Challenging’

Middle East Monitor

Amelia Smith amyinthedesert ( Middle East Monitor ) – When Tarek Tookebry began raising funds to collect essential items for a humanitarian convoy to Tunisia’s second city, Sfax – where black Africans are being increasingly attacked and deported – the initial goal was to raise 10,000 Tunisian dinars ($3,300). As of Wednesday 12 […]

Africa

Tunisia: Crisis as Black Africans Expelled to Libya Border

Human Rights Watch

( Human Rights Watch) – (Tunis) – Tunisian security forces have collectively expelled several hundred Black African migrants and asylum seekers, including children and pregnant women, since July 2, 2023 to a remote, militarized buffer zone at the Tunisia–Libya border, Human Rights Watch said today. The group includes people with both regular and irregular legal […]

Sudan

Khartoum: The city I fled; the city I love

Global Voices

Written byرصيف 22 Translated byMariam A. Translated byRaseef22 Read this post in عربي This piece was first published by Raseef22 and was written by Mohammad Najeddine. An edited version is republished here, under a content-sharing agreement. ( Globalvoices.org ) – I never imagined that I would long for Khartoum one day, despite being the […]

Feminism

Rising Sexual Violence in Sudan Conflict Reflects Entrenched Patriarchy – But Women and Girls are Fighting Back

The Conversation

By Tamsin Bradley, University of Portsmouth | – Watching and hearing the horrifying reports of violence and savagery in Sudan, those of us working to end violence against women and girls immediately become concerned about how it will inevitably spill over into sexual violence. As recently as July 5, a report from the UN highlighted […]

Egypt

Jada Pinkett Smith’s Black Cleopatra Stirred Controversy, but What about the Forgotten Queens of Ancient Nubia?

The Conversation

By Yasmin Moll, University of Michigan | – Jada Pinkett Smith’s new Netflix documentary series on Cleopatra aims to spotlight powerful African queens. “We don’t often get to see or hear stories about Black queens, and that was really important for me, as well as for my daughter, and just for my community to be […]

China

Sudan conflict: how China and Russia are involved and the differences between them

The Conversation

By Marcel Plichta, University of St Andrews and Mateja Peter, University of St Andrews | – As clashes continue between the Sudanese military and rapid support forces, the current and historic role of foreign governments in Sudanese affairs is under close examination. Unsurprisingly, the Sudan conflict has amplified concerns from the US and other countries […]