This week’s column is on people losing their minds, and insulting the public’s intelligence, over Mamdani.

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“It seems hardly a coincidence that RSF public conferences in Nairobi were immediately followed by a $1.5 billion loan from the UAE and a surge in suspicious UAE-to-RSF shipments transiting through Kenya,” Lynch said.

Great job by @bellingcat.com
and @nationafrica.bsky.social for their investigation into Kenyan-labeled crates of ammunition found in Sudan's civil war.

www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/06...

After reports of drone strikes emerged from Port Sudan in early May, CIR's Sudan Witness used user-generated content (UGC) and satellite imagery to verify fires and damage to six sites in Port Sudan between 4 and 7 May 2025.
New report: www.info-res.org/reports/alle...

Last week’s UAV attacks in Port Sudan show how Sudan’s war is driven by new technology. The RSF have discovered a vulnerability in SAF’s anti-drone systems. SAF will close the vulnerability, but when? See my comments in the BBC. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Critical investigation by @clairelwilmot.bsky.social about how Meta offshored content moderation to the world's poorest countries. Sweatshops of the digital age. www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...

Sudan is suffering the world's worst famine in four decades, but aid is dwindling. I appeared on Al Jazeera's Inside Story with Kholood Khair to discuss how to save lives now and in the future. Here are the points I made:
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Iran dreamed up a US-style Marshall Plan to rebuild Syria after the civil war. It invested billions to build influence there. Documents from its looted embassy show how that plan went spectacularly wrong with the fall of Bashar al-Assad reut.rs/3Ypri76

1/ I can't imagine the anger & disappointment Sudanese feel today. The sit-in was a release of 30 years of fear & violence that erupted into euphoric celebration of democracy. It was a privilege to witness it. Today the transition has turned into a nightmare.

Important article on the risks of a war between Eritrea and Ethiopia. CIG have seen evidence of a military buildup for a few months. foreignpolicy.com/2025/03/12/e...

It's looking bad again in Tigray. It's hard to know what will happen, but Sudan, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea, DRC, and Somalia are all on the brink of or in the middle of state collapse/conflict. The future of the region is being decided in the Middle East.

“You don’t need a lot of drones to turn the tide of war,” said
Justin Lynch, MD at Conflict Insights Group, a data analytics and research organization that helped authenticate the trove of documents. “You have seen a huge SAF advancement." www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

This is an exceptional article about war, trauma, and Ethiopia. tps://newlinesmag.com/reportage/the-monastery-at-the-heart-of-the-war-between-ethiopia-and-eritrea/