Silence! We are being killed in occupied Western Sahara!
- Malainin Lakhal ماءالعينين لكحل
The Moroccan para-military and security forces are involved since last Friday evening in a massive, violent and deadly repression against Saharawi civilians in the occupied city of El Aaiun, the occupied capital of Western Sahara. The events broke after ...
The prospect of death facing all migrants…and not just on U.S. Southern borders: the case of Western Saharawi rapper Said Lili
- Bill Fletcher Jr.
“I do not know how to swim; please give me a bottle to hold onto…”
–Final words of Western Sahara migrant & hip-hop performer Said Lili, June 2019
The much needed media attention to the situation facing migrants crossing ...
42 words on page 3: How Mohamed Morsi died in Egyptian newspapers
- Mada Masr مدى مصر
If Egypt’s daily newspapers are your only source of news, you might have woken up to discover that a citizen by the name of Mohamed Morsi al-Ayat died yesterday during a court hearing on espionage charges.
In actuality, the seemingly ...
Former president Mohamed Morsi dies in court session, rights groups point to lack of proper medical care in detention
- Mostafa Mohie مصطفى محيي - Rana Mamdouh رنا ممدوح
Former President Mohamed Morsi collapsed and died on Monday while attending a court hearing in a retrial of a case in which he stood accused of espionage, according to state television. He was 67 years old.
In a statement issued shortly after ...
Sudan: Scenes from a protest camp dispersed
- Mada Masr مدى مصر
On the last night of the sit-in, a number of homeless children gather around a tailor inside one of the tents of the mass protest camp outside the military headquarters in Khartoum. Some of the protesters had invited the tailor into the camp so that ...
Forces of the Declaration of Freedom and Change: Statement from 14 June 2019
- Forces of the Declaration of Freedom and Change قوى إعلان الحرية والتغيير
To our noble people
Yesterday’s press conference by the Transitional Military Council (TMC) was but a continuation of the misinformation campaign we have been watching in all their press conferences post the 29th of Ramadan massacre. Once again, ...
Arduous “walk to freedom” in Western Sahara
- Malainin Lakhal ماءالعينين لكحل
The story of Western Sahara, the last colony in Africa, is one of flagrant violation of international law, and persistence of a four decades’ military occupation by an African country of another African nation. But it is also a story of systematic ...
Awadeya Mahmoud Koko: From tea seller to union leader to ‘mother of the Sudanese revolution’
- Ariane Lavrilleux أريان لافريلوكس
Awadeya Mahmoud Koko shouts orders to her staff, raising her voice to be heard above the protest chants that fill the air of downtown Khartoum. She sits in a plastic chair on Gamhuriya Avenue by the main gate of a mass sit-in outside Sudan’s ...
RSF Report: Western Sahara, A News Blackhole
- RSF
In its report on press freedoms in Western Sahara, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) sheds light on a territory cut off from the rest of the world, a veritable news black hole that has become a no-go zone for journalists.
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'Build barricades, then run': Sudan's protesters find new tactics for civil disobedience
- Kaamil Ahmed كامل أحمد
Anger against military council moves from open demonstrations to civil disobedience amid a violent crackdown
Build the barricades, then run. The message from protest leaders to the young Sudanese on the streets of the capital has been consistent ahead ...
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