Photo by Yusuf Yassir on Unsplash There is no denying that peace cannot come soon enough to the suffering Sudanese people. They have paid a huge price in the civil war that has raged across their country since 2023. But the question now is: What price will they pay for peace? Is any price payable?…
Evidence is emerging that widely circulated images depicting atrocities in El-Fasher, Sudan, were generated by artificial intelligence (AI), and not authentic documentation of the conflict. The analysis from the BBC, Deutsche Welle and Agence France Presse has been focused on identifying images and footage that have received viral coverage as evidence of misconduct by the…
Photo by mostafa meraji on Unsplash The past week saw General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, leader of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), commenting from Atbara on the prospects for peace in Sudan. He once again appeared to reject international initiatives for peace, the latest refusal in a two-year long saga of him rebuffing peace attempts, seemingly…
Photo by Elize Bezuidenhout on Unsplash In the last days of August, Sudan’s two rival governments both held cabinet meetings which, in their different symbolisms, reflected very different visions for the future of their benighted country. Those different visions were best captured in the redesigned state coat of arms that hung on the wall behind…
Photo by Maël BALLAND on Unsplash Last week in Sudan was more about what didn’t happen than did, although the violence continued unabated. A meeting of the Quartet (the United States plus three regional powers, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE) seeking a resolution to the conflict, was called off at the last minute. Reasons…
Photo Credit: UN Photo/Manuel Elías Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, leader of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), made a legitimacy dash to Seville in Spain last week, to attend a UN international development summit, the first of its kind in a decade. Addressing the conference, he made sweeping claims about Sudan’s important steps toward ‘civilian-led democratic transition’, claims…
Eurocontrol has released a new study that sets out what actions need to be taken in order to make every air journey as close to a ‘perfect green flight’ as possible. The paper examines why it isn’t possible to fly a perfect green flight today, which measures have the greatest potential to improve the sustainability…
