Sudan Archives - YaLa Press

Hakama! We are the revolution

Author: By Khalid, Sudan | Opinion
Published: March 4, 2021
Categories: in Conflict & Peacebuilding, Human Rights, Opinion and Analysis, Sudan, Tolerance
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Tags: Movements, revolution, sudan, war

Between the sounds “Zgareed” and under the showers of bullets, people are masked with Hijabs, preventing the arrival of tear gas. Inside neighborhoods, universities, and public areas, individuals are shouting “Freedom, peace, justice!” In Sudan, my country as an Arab-African society as well as a multicultural community with different ethnicities, there were always these traditional […]

Opinion| Lebanon, the day after the blast, by Mohamed Abubaker, Sudan

Author: Mohamed Abubaker, Sudan
Published: August 9, 2020
Categories: in Conflict & Peacebuilding, Current Events, English, Lebanon, Opinion and Analysis, Sudan
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Tags: beirut, Liban, middle east, Op-Ed, PrayforBeirut

Since yesterday morning, I read so many harsh comments from Arabs and Africans shaming and condemning the Lebanese people for the petition started by some activists, inviting French mandate back to Lebanon, which so far gathered far more signatures than votes in elections in Lebanon. Citing anti-colonialism quotes along the way, from various civil rights […]

Opinion | Do Right by Those who are Already a Part of Us by Inbal, Israel

Author: Inbal Baron, Israel
Published: December 22, 2019
Categories: in Civil Activism, Conflict & Peacebuilding, Culture and Heritage, Current Events, Democracy, English, Human Rights, Israel, Opinion and Analysis, Politics, Sudan, Tolerance, כללי
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A week before the September elections, ynet published an article focusing on the policies of the various political parties concerning the immigration issue. Representing the Likud party in the article, was May Golan, who had led the struggle to deport African asylum seekers (“infiltrators”) and who became an MK in the period between the April […]

On That Bloody Monday… by MacElhadi, Sudan

Author: MacElhadi, Sudan
Published: June 12, 2019
Categories: in Civil Activism, Conflict & Peacebuilding, Current Events, Democracy, English, Human Rights, Politics, Sudan
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Tags: news, revolution, sudan, sudanrevolution

Their bodies left us, but their memories still linger on. The secluded which have been forced upon us by the Transitional military council continues. We are not connected with the rest of the world. Our hearts filled with pain and sadness in light of the shocking and heinous crime which took place during the 29th […]

A New Beginning by Ahmed, Sudan

Author: By Ahmed, Sudan
Published: November 29, 2018
Categories: in English, Human Rights, Identity, Life Style, Religion, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Tolerance
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Tags: Difference, life, opinion, religion, school, truth

My name is Ahmed, I was born into a Muslim family originally from Sudan. I was born and raised in Saudi Arabia then moved to Sudan for University. I studied medicine and currently work as a doctor, and I have remained in Sudan ever since. In Saudi Arabia, people born to Non-Saudi parents do not […]

My Three Months in Prison by Kedy Osman Ali, Sudan

Author: by Kedy Osman Ali, Sudan
Published: October 23, 2017
Categories: in Conflict & Peacebuilding, English, Sudan
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Tags: #enviolence, #thinkactyala, conflict, prison, sudan, sudanwar, warandconflict, yalacampaign, youth

In 2008, I was a 22-year-old boy. I finished my last exam for the Sudan High School Certificate. I was supposed to start my national service, which was compulsory in the Sudan, in two months. About 1,500 fellow students and I were receiving national service training when we were ordered to go to fight the […]

What happened on December 31st, 2005

Author: Adam Ahmed, Sudan
Published: May 19, 2017
Categories: in Civil Activism, Conflict & Peacebuilding, Current Events, English, Gender and LGBTQ, Sudan
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Tags: cairo, demonstration, egypt, police, refugees, sudan, violence

It was a cold evening in Mustafa Mahmoud Square, in the middle of Cairo, Egypt. I was sitting among almost 3,000 asylum seekers from Sudan and South Sudan; we were there for a sit-in against the United Nation Commission for Refugee’s (UNHCR) new policy toward Sudanese and South Sudanese refugees in Egypt. The square is […]

About Borders and Prejudice, by Marwa from Sudan

Published: March 1, 2017
Categories: in English, Human Rights, Sudan
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Tags: Borders, history, love, sudan

It is said that where we find our hearts, we find our homes, but I see it as a limitation to hearts as well as to homes, just like limiting lands with borders and calling them countries. This is not a story of love and prejudice, but rather of geopolitics and globalization. It begins in […]

Dashiki by Khalid Siraj Aldeen, Sudan

Published: February 15, 2017
Categories: in English, Identity, Sudan
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Tags: clothing, Culture, dashiki, diversity, sudan

Wearing my headphones, I hopped onto public transport. Peaking my head up as soon as I left, I was surprised by the passengers staring at me. It was as if I had committed a grave mistake. Followed by their gaze, I took a step back to review my stance. It had only been few seconds […]

The Tent by Thabit from Sudan

Published: July 6, 2016
Categories: in Current Events, English, Sudan
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Tags: europe, macedonia, mother, refugees, sudan, youth

Among the thousands I saw every day in and around the Idomeni camp at the Macedonian border, I once encountered a young mother who I will never forget. She was, like many other refugees, men, women and children alike, walking the 25 km that separated them from the border. I was walking, purposefully dealing with many […]

An Act of Love

Author: Marwa, Sudan
Published: June 23, 2016
Categories: in Human Rights, Past Special Editions, Sudan
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Tags: Female Genital Mutilation, sudan

It’s 9 in the morning; the cool breeze of the winter season caresses our tiny sleepy faces. The humming voices of students reciting Qura’an in the yard broke the silence in our classroom. Our 4th Grade teacher walked in holding his black leather bag and announced that today’s class is going to be on ‘Female […]

Om Salama by Mohamed Abubakr, Sudan

Author: Mohamed Abubakr
Published: February 16, 2016
Categories: in Civil Activism, Conflict & Peacebuilding, English, Human Rights, Sudan
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Tags: refugees

Few dozens of miles south of UNHCR camp in Darfur, Sudan, the mission of a group of young, enthusiastic human rights watch-dogs turned from observing and reporting human rights violations committed during the war in areas beyond UN reach, to personally taking care of hundreds of newly created war refugees. A small temporary camp was […]

Video | Women of the Middle East

Published: November 19, 2015
Categories: in Civil Activism, Culture and Heritage, Egypt, Friendship, Gender and LGBTQ, Human Rights, Identity, Israel, Media, Morocco, Palestine, Sudan, Syria, Tolerance, Videos
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Tags: algeria, education, egypt, equality, Freedom of Speech, iraq, israel, middle east, morocco, palestine, sudan, syria, women

Women from all over the Middle East are speaking up – for education, safety, equality, for their freedom of speech. They come from Palestine, Israel, Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Morocco, Algeria and Sudan, but they are united in commitment to be the voice of the voiceless.

Video | Safe Place Project by Abdelrahiem Faisal, Sudan

Author: Abdelrahiem Faisal, Sudan
Published: November 19, 2015
Categories: in Media, Sudan, Videos
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Tags: sudan, Video, YaLa Citizen Journalist

Abdalrheem from Sudan made this lovely video for the Aileen Getty School of Citizen Journalism with the help of his friends at the NetHUB-Check it out here:

Video | Meet Asma, Sudan

Author: Asma, Sudan
Published: November 19, 2015
Categories: in Civil Activism, Gender and LGBTQ, Human Rights, Media, Sudan, Videos
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Tags: sudan, Video, YaLa Citizen Journalist

“An organization refused to let me perform. The main reason, they said, was because I am a woman. I wrote this in response.”

From QAIA to my room ! (A long way to the YaLa Conference) by Showki Omer, Sudan

Author: Showki Omer
Published: November 19, 2014
Categories: in English, Human Rights, Politics, Sudan, Tolerance, Travel
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Tags: IsraelPalestine, jordan, sudan, yala, yala conference, yalayoungleaders

YALA means “Let’s go!” Well that is exactly what the Jordanian officer told me when I arrived to QAIA (Queen Alia’a International Airport). You could say that those next few hour were the most horrible of my life (well at least for this year)! But he wasn’t showing me the way to Amman, he was […]

Dear President Obama

Author: Mohamed Abubaker, Sudan
Published: March 26, 2013
Categories: in Conflict & Peacebuilding, Current Events, English, Politics, Sudan
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Tags: MohamedSalihAbubakr, Obama, peace, sudan, yalayoungleaders

Dear Mr. President, First of all, welcome back to the region. I hope you’ll enjoy your short stay here. And I hope you will notice that nothing has changed around here since your last visit – perhaps the weather is a bit better now. People told me to lower my expectations about your last visit. […]