Yep. The SAF is designed to protect the state, not its people.

The day after Russian forces arrive, Niger signs a $400m oil deal with China. Life moves pretty fast…

#Sudan : '... the war is far from over and is in fact likely to get worse.. Impending battles over Wad Madani and El Fasher are likely to unleash substantial new civilian casualties, perhaps the worst of the war so far.'

In addition to the arrival of Russian cargo planes in Niger, Moscow’s Africa Legion vessels have just made a significant military delivery in #Tobruk .

Furthermore, there’s been an increase of about 25% in the number of Russian personnel stationed at the Brak al-Shatti base.…

My views on Russians in Niger:“Washington has a lack of self-awareness about how it is coming across...They have made Russia the boogeyman in all of this, but that's a way to deflect responsibility and avoid any introspection about the policies we pursue.” wapo.st/3vWdKVq

“Regrettably, on the 1 yr anniv of the conflict, goals must be substantially more modest: slowing the pace of war, choking off weapons supplies, raising humanitarian resources, accessing desperate populations, saving lives, & avoiding a worst-case scenario for #Sudan .” -Cameron Hudson

My commentary for CSIS Africa Program: 'On the 1-year anniversary of fighting in #Sudan , prospects for a speedy resolution to the conflict look bleak. Bleaker still is the toll the underfunded global response and expanding conflict is having on civilians.' csis.org/analysis/looki…

This was good from Clingendael Institute on the need for keeping internet on in #Sudan and how it should figure into international demands. clingendael.org/publication/in…

🚨Critical decision from Meta oversight board to reverse Facebook original decision to allow an RSF video to stay on the site. More importantly, it gives an official understanding as to why they have not disabled the RSF's Facebook account fully. I suspect that many Sudanese…

Surprising in only how quickly they arrived. One must assume that the deployment of Russian air defenses should be seen as a direct response to the American question as to whether it can keep its drones in #Niger . Could force the US to withdraw on its own rather than expelling.

.Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield on the situation in Sudan: The world has largely remained silent and that must change and it has to change. The international community must give more, it must do more and it has to care more.

These kinds of statements as so irresponsible as to be dangerous. There is no chance that Masra wins these elections and even less chance the army lines up behind him if he does. He’s putting his supporters at mortal risk just as he did in October 2022.

Hard to call it an accusation when it’s just a fact

Sometimes it takes a friend to tell you the truth about yourself. Lets hope our leaders hear it.

Just curious, does everyone receive these glossy RSF weekly updates in their inbox or am I just on their special friends list?🤪

'Half of Sudan’s children, 10 million, are currently or have been within five kilometers of the front lines of the fighting, leaving them vulnerable to “gunfire, shelling, air strikes and other violence”. And as drone usage increases that # only goes up. aljazeera.com/news/2024/4/10…

From the start, SAF's tactical weakness relative to RSF has been its near total lack of mobility. The introduction of Iranian drones not only levels the playing field, it considerably advantages the SAF. That is until RSF's own drones are fully deployed. reuters.com/world/middle-e…

'The drone, clearly modeled on Iran’s Ababil model had a design tweak: Its two front tires, instead of the usual one, provided actual battlefield evidence that #Sudan is modifying the Iranian drone into its own weapon, which it calls the Zagel-3.' bloomberg.com/news/features/…

Cant lose sight of the fact that 3.4million Chadians are now experiencing urgent food insecurity, aggravated by the massive influx of Sudanese refugees, but not entirely for that reason. rtl.be/actu/monde/int…