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Articles by DAR. Sometimes a report on the week's news. Sometimes a portrait of one woman whose name I have learned. Sometimes a question I cannot yet answer. Always, the Sudanese women who can no longer write are the reason I write.

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  • 27 October 2026

    Al-Fashir Did Not Fall Alone: The War Leaders and Partners in Tragedy

    Al-Fashir did not fall at the hands of one party alone. The RSF besieged and took the city, but the SAF and the Joint Forces made decisions that kept civilians in harm's way — and justice that selects defendants by alliance is no justice at all.

  • 26 October 2026

    When Women Are Forced to Bury Their Dead: One Year Since the Fall of Al-Fashir

    A year after Al-Fashir fell to the Rapid Support Forces, the women who survived it are still displaced, still without care in pregnancy and childbirth, and still burying their dead. Protection has to be measured by whether they reach safety, not by statements issued.

  • 21 October 2026

    The October That Was Not Completed

    The Sudanese overthrew military rule in 1964, 1985 and 2019, yet never dismantled the system that reproduces tyranny and war. On the anniversary of the October Revolution: why the revolutions stalled, why this war is more than a quarrel between two generals, and what must change for the state to be rebuilt.

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