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Kidnapped In The Name of The Law
WHY WOMEN IN SUDAN ARE FIGHTING FOR THEIR RIGHTS UNDER THE SUDANESE PERSONAL STATUS LAW Published in Teakisi Magazine Note: The names in this article have been changed to protect the identity of the victims and their children, especially in cases of on-going custody trials. After a short-lived and turbulent marriage, Fadwa and her husband…
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Sudanese Women At The Heart of The Revolution
Written for African Feminism with Omnia Shawkat Country-wide peaceful demonstrations against the regime in Sudan are in their second month, with over 50 people reported dead, dozens more maimed and wounded and hundreds detained by the regime. Sudan has been a country resisting the totalitarian rule of President Omar El Bashir for 3 decades now. After…
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Working From Home For The First Time? Here Are 10 Tips To Help You Out.
Published on 31/3/2020 on LinkedIn For many people, working from home can be a completely new and unfamiliar experience. For some, it may not have even seemed possible. But thanks to modern technology, here we are: operating our office computers remotely and holding virtual meetings with relative ease. It even makes you wonder why…
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The new Sudan: overcoming the ‘curse of natural resources’ in healthcare
Originally published on 27/10/2019 on LinkedIn I just finished reading an interesting article by Ashley Eva Millar and Malan Rietveld titled ‘Natural Resources: A blessing or a curse?’ as part of my research for a paper we are writing. The article discusses the apparently negative relationship between a country’s possession of natural resources and its economic success. The theory in a nut-shell…
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Hit Me Like You Mean It!
There is a lot going on in the land of the Nile these days: war drums in the east with Eritrea, 100% rise in the price of bread and electricity with subsequent protests, arrests and killings, and the usual diplomatic squabble with Egypt over something or another. And in the middle of this arises a…
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A World Without Down Syndrome
Photo credit: Reem Gaafar October is Down Syndrome Awareness month, and around this time last year came Sally Phillip’s documentary film A World Without Down’s Syndrome that asked the question: what would the world be like if Down’s syndrome was eliminated? Some countries are well on the way to answer that question: Iceland’s rigorous screening…