Hafsa Halawa
Egyptian/Iraqi Brit. Political analyst and mediation specialist, working across MENA/Horn of Africa. Views here my own. RT ≠ endorsement.
- 15 years. #Jan25
- According to at least one independent group “More than 25,000 children have been killed and 45 girls raped while fleeing the North-Darfur city of El Fasher since Sudan’s war began” Utterly horrific, making global silence on #Sudan ever more unconscionable sudantribune.com/article/3077...
- Amnesty’s report on the carnage at the hands of the RSF at Zamzam, April 2025: Sudan: “A Refuge Destroyed”: RSF Violations in Darfur’s Zamzam Camp for Internally Displaced Persons www.amnesty.org/en/documents...
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- Many congratulations to my colleague and dear friend Randa Slim: Stimson Center Welcomes Randa Slim to Lead Middle East Program www.stimson.org/2025/stimson...
- The problem in Sudan, the major battle to ending the war, only comes with acknowledging that everyone has blood on their hands.
- Pure heartless cruelty. The entire Parliamentary Labour Party owns this. All of them, heartless, cruel, racist, bigoted, incompetent, careless and unfeeling idiots.
- Are we asking what/who radicalised Shabana Mahmoud yet? Because honestly, I don’t see any other explanation.
- To all the US officials who have stayed silent as Israel killed 271 Palestinian journalists, assassinated Shereen Abu Akleh: there have been few public figures, advocates or voices more staunchly committed to Palestinian self-determination in our region, than Jamal Khashoggi, Allah yerhamo.
- Our beautiful Afraa bravely sharing her thoughts, interviewed yesterday by @channel4news.bsky.social over the new measures announced by the Home Secretary yesterday cc @thesyriacampaign.org www.instagram.com/reel/DRK2otj...
- Reposted by Hafsa HalawaConfiscating jewellery from survivors of a war zone makes you look like a fucking Nazi. And the obscene thing is, that is the intention. It's there to look appropriately harsh. Indecent. Filthy. A moral stain. And no-one of good character would have ever proposed such a thing in the first place.
- What. The. Actual. F***
- Important investigative work outlining the pillaging of the Horn of Africa - not just in Sudan: How gold tarnished Tigray www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...
- Very, very good read from Amb. Jeffrey Feltman: Sudan’s deadly divide: The RSF and SAF’s reign of terror www.brookings.edu/articles/sud...
- Sudan has always been the holy grail of regional security, stability & supply. It’s where all conventional, traditional & natural alliances blow up as all external actors compete for the same resources. Public disaccord amongst them isn’t surprising - that they’ve made this competition zero-sum, is.
- It’s taken two years of shouting into the void as pro-Palestine activism whitewashed and covered up all the pro-Assad voices who created a heinous and violent online space of defending his barbarism during social uprising, but now the Gaza War is slowing, people are finally listening.
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- Honestly, I just laughed through most of this article: ““When you flush the toilet, the stuff goes downhill, right?” the architect asked…“We’re going to have hundreds of shuttle cars running back and forth, picking up the sewage on retractable bridges.”” End of The Line ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...
- The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
- What is happening in Darfur is utterly devastating, made more painful by how we all saw it coming. You can’t really say you didn’t know, but if you didn’t, read this: An atrocity foretold: How the RSF siege of El Fasher turned into genocidal slaughter www.thenewhumanitarian.org/analysis/202...
- First London, now New York. If there’s one post-2001 legacy thesis that is yet to be written, it’s about mayoral elections in these two cities.
- There should be something impactful and meaningful about accountability that one has ready to say when it’s announced Dick Cheney has died. But maybe, actually, it’s enough that today will only ever be remembered as the day Zohran Mamdani becomes the Mayor of New York City.
- Reposted by Hafsa HalawaBlood spilled in Sudan can be seen from space. Nobody can feign ignorance about what’s going on | Nesrine Malik
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- Sudan’s cultural heritage becomes a casualty in its civil war www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
- Infuriating to see political voices in the West against what is happening in El Fasher, when powerful Sudanese voices have been warning about this for months if not years. It’s disingenuous to act surprised, pretend it’s a shock or find your voice now with this phase of genocide in Darfur underway.
- We need urgent, immediate intervention in Sudan. For months now, I’ve been proposing an Astana-like process to conduct negotiations between Egypt & UAE - be it convened by Russia or by the United States. We can sit on our hands and argue ‘do no harm’ principles, or we can be realistic about this war
- We live in an era of changed diplomacy in the Middle East, with the rising power of Gulf nations and their influence on regional dynamics and international diplomacy. Whilst a more coherent Arab position has long been sought…(1/2)
- Must watch interview on @channel4news.bsky.social by @krishgm.bsky.social last night with Kholood Khair on developments in Sudan amid the RSF takeover of El Fasher in North Darfur. Utterly devastating for all Sudanese; important info, background & warnings from Kholood: youtu.be/XQV8ZMR3CrM?...
- El Fasher is on all of those who have remained silent, or ignored the cold reality of what all knew would happen under RSF takeover. Geneina, Zamzam…we knew this. We were warned. Two previous genocides just in this war alone. Everyone stood back, watched. Stayed silent, and let this happen.
- Americans are actually coming out en masse to *defend* Islamophobia. Up in arms at Mamdani giving agency and voice to the discrimination that Muslims have endured in the West, escalating on a visceral scale since 2001. I’ve long thought nothing can surprise me, but honestly, this really does.
- “Tigray is broken. Its leaders divided, some aligning with Addis Ababa, others with Eritrea. Another war looms, one that could pit Tigrayans against each other. I fought once to defend my people; I will not fight again in a war that will destroy what remains.” continent.substack.com/p/the-exodus...
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- These are moments when history is being made. In this election, a monumental watershed moment has arrived. “To be Muslim in New York is to expect indignity. But indignity does not make us distinct—there are many who face it. It is the tolerance of that indignity that does.” - Zohran Mamdani.
- The last few weeks of this heightened, racialised, sectarian narrative growing against Mamdani as he runs away with the election reminds me of where we were when Zac Goldsmith spewed utter bile and venomous crap about Sadiq Khan before Khan stormed the election to become the Mayor of London.
- It’s really incredible how, despite 10 years in (de facto) power, no one in the West seems to have learnt a single thing about MbS’ Saudi Arabia. But please, carry on filling your time with hopeless, wasteful words that don’t ring true of any kind of real analysis or understanding.
- Today is a reminder that the shrill, baseless screaming coming from Israel that “everything is Hamas” doesn’t stand up to any real scrutiny by serious people or serious institutions. Today is a victory not just for UNRWA. But for rule of law. And serious judges that occupy the seats at the ICJ.
- The years-long trickle of information crystallising the story, is just utterly chilling. It’s hard to stomach, it’s almost too hard to believe, I cannot imagine the trauma inflicted upon these young girls for so long. Rest in your truth, rest in power, Virginia. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
- Raila Odinga, Former Kenyan Prime Minister and Champion of Democracy, Dies at 80 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/w...
- He’s trying to orchestrate an “Oslo moment”.
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- The only thing worth reading today as leaders gather in Sharm el Sheikh: While the perpetrators of Gaza’s genocide pose as its saviours, survivors return home – to a wasteland - @nesrinemalik.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
