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As the #DRC catches global attention due to #M23, its other crises continue to be overlooked, including attacks on the #Banyamulenge. My blog series from June unpacks narratives on this complex crisis that overlook/downplay the Banyamulenge perspective.
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La République centrafricaine fait face aux dangereuses retombées de la guerre civile au Soudan voisin. crisisgroup.org/fr/rpt/afric…
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Tonight @channel4news: the sudden entry of @Lana_Nusseibeh of the UAE into the race to be UN Secretary General. Human Rights campaigners say she's tried to block scrutiny of UAE's role supporting the RSF which has committed atrocities in #Sudan. But does she have momentum?
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The level of sexual violence in the Sudan conflict is absolutely unspeakable. Every time someone tries to sell Lana Nusseibeh’s UNSG candidacy as a win for feminism, I think about the women and girls who have been gang raped by UAE-supported forces. news.un.org/en/story/2026/06…
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Civilians in Sudan’s El Obeid live in constant fear of drone attacks by the genocidal United Arab Emirates-armed Rapid Support Forces paramilitary and of a wave of arbitrary arrests by the Sudanese Armed Forces. trib.al/WPo8SHN
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Lana Nusseibeh has a long record of whitewashing UAE rights abuses in Sudan & Yemen:
As permanent representative to the UN, Nusseibeh repeatedly defended the UAE's actions in Yemen while dismissing evidence of widely documented abuses.
hrw.org/news/2026/10/28/uae-…
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I still don’t understand how countries can back for UN Secretary-General a candidate who for years has been complicit in mass murder and mass rape in Sudan — even if she now insists that she will solve the crisis she is partly responsible for.
Full text of UN Sec Gen candidate Lana Nusseibeh's response to @yonahdiamond's question about the UAE's complicity in war in Sudan
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Meanwhile, the UAE, which backs the RSF, the militia that carried out these atrocities, is pushing its own candidate for #UNSecretaryGeneral. Will Britain block @Lana_Nusseibeh? If not why not?
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Perhaps the UAE's candidate for UN Secretary-General Lana Nusseibeh "could begin by explaining why her own government has been repeatedly implicated in helping fuel the genocidal catastrophe in Sudan."
My latest piece for Zeteo on a big scandal at the UN:
zeteo.com/p/the-uae-helped-f…
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There is something very concrete you can do at this juncture for #Sudan, @Ed_Miliband.
Veto the candidacy for UNSG of the individual who has done as much as anyone to protect the perpetrators of El Fasher: Lana Nussibeih.
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Here is a great reminder of all the things that have NOT happened since El Fasher fell to the RSF: No new sanctions on Hemedti, not sanctions against UAE, no enforcement of existing arms embargo. hrw.org/news/2026/10/26/suda…
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Miliband: ‘the UK is sanctioning those linked to these and other atrocities’ in Sudan.
Also Miliband: we are considering supporting an apologist for the UAE, which sponsors the perpetrators, to lead the United Nations.
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UN Commission of Inquiry on #Ukraine:
Russian authorities have committed war crimes of intentionally directing attacks against civilian objects & crimes against humanity of other inhumane acts with continuous attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure.
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Candidates for UN Secretary-General should be assessed on their qualifications, record, and commitment to international law—not gender alone given the importance of the role and its responsibility to uphold UN principles.
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One year after the fall of El Fasher, I write about the city where I was born and raised, the life we lost, and friends whose fate remains unknown .
My personal essay for @NewHumanitarian: thenewhumanitarian.org/opini…
#ElfasherRed
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EXCLUSIVE: The UK is leaning towards backing Emirati diplomat Lana Nusseibeh as secretary-general of the United Nations, we can reveal.
Nusseibeh's candidacy has drawn controversy because of the UAE's support for the RSF in Sudan.
Full story below:
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One way to "strengthen support for atrocity survivors" in Sudan would be to block the main government backer of the El Fasher slaughter from installing the next UN Secretary General.
Will the UK exercise its P5 power to do so?
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Sudan: One Year on from the Cataclysm of El Fasher. “It is as if a tsunami had hit the city,” said a resident who returned to Sudan’s El Fasher only to find it destroyed and largely abandoned after the Rapid Support Forces’ (RSF) October 2025 takeover.
hrw.org/news/2026/10/26/suda…
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‘The appointment of Nusseibeh, who has been the face of the UAE’s Sudan strategy, would be a slap in the face to the millions of people suffering the horrors of war, and a dereliction of duty towards those thousands who have already been killed.’
theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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If Flávio Bolsonaro does win today, the consequences for the Indigenous people of the Amazon will be devastating. We travelled to Roraima to hear how the Yanomami are already seeing signs of another massive gold rush theguardian.com/world/2026/o…
