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SSSUK Statement on the war in Sudan

Readers will need no reminder that the war has now been raging in Sudan for two years. Like many we made a plea at Eid two years ago that the combatants draw back from disaster and end the war. This Eid, with great sadness, we urgently repeat our plea. Those risks we identified in 2023 - of countless lives lost, of critical infrastructure destroyed and heritage institutions damaged and looted - all these have come to pass in almost every region of the country.

2024 Annual Symposium and AGM at SOAS

This year's Symposium and AGM will take place in London on Saturday 5th October

Venue: Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), Thornhaugh Street (off Russell Square), London WC1H 0XG. 

Timings: Registration from 09:15. Symposium from 10:15-17.00.

Programme: panels will be on the following subjects:

The Sudans Takeover (Sudanese journalism in The Guardian)

Short description

On 7 July 2016 The Guardian newspaper's Africa Network featured the work of a group of Sudanese and South Sudanese journalists, reporting on the issues facing their countries. "From clubbing to beauty politics, police crackdowns to the ongoing war in Darfur, their stories offer a new way to understand this under-reported region." The journalists whose work was featured are: Ahmad Abushakeema, Yousra Elbagir, Mohamed Hilali, Mariak Bol Majok, Opoka p'Arop Otto, Zeinab Mohammed Salih.

URL
https://www.theguardian.com/world/series/the-sudans-takeover

South Sudan: The Untold Story from Independence to Civil War

A public event linked to the launch of a book of the same name by Hilde F. Johnson. Other speakers are Clare Short and Barney Afako.

Venue: Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre, SOAS, London. 17:30-19:30, Tuesday 21 June 2016.

Hosted by the Royal African Society, SOAS and Kings College London. (SSSUK is not an organizer of this event.) Link to the booking webpage here.

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