Tag: Sudan

Reflections on an Asylum Seeker in Cairo

BY MARJORIE TOLSDORF I was hopelessly lost in the center of Old Cairo with a dead phone, a handful of useless Arabic words floating around in my head, and an escalating fear that I would not find my way back…

A Different Experience of a Minority Group

BY BASBIBI KAKAR When Ramzia, a pseudonym to protect her identity, sees people migrating from one country to another, she doesn’t blame them. “You can’t be in a place where your life is not guaranteed,” she says. “You have to…

The Lost Boys Vote

BY STEPHEN GRAY The gunfire, explosions and screams coming from his village convinced Peter it was time to flee. Concealed by the falling dusk, he escaped into the woods, leaving his family, his village in Southern Sudan, and his childhood…

Should Sudan’s Leader Go On Trial?

BY EAMON KIRCHER-ALLEN Images in the Save Darfur Coalition’s television advertisements tug at the heart: a child who has been raped; a man with a bloody stump where his arm should be; another man, in tears, recalling the death of…