esistance from the main Arab and Islamic leaders of that era, among them Abdelrahman al-Mahdi and Ali al-Mirghani, who many believe had slaves working on the vast tracts of land they owned along the Nile River.
And so on…
Remember Darfur? Where the pro-government Arab Janjaweed militias arrived on horseback in black African villages, killing the men and raping the women? For which the then president Omar al-Bashir was prosecuted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes and genocide? That all came to nothing. And it's still going on…
Little has changed there in the last year, with reports of rapes and village burnings continuing despite the peace talks organised by the power-sharing government, which is leading the three-year transition to civilian rule.
The transitional government was formed by the military and the civilian groups that led the 2019 revolution, but it is unclear whether it is genuinely committed to tackling the structural racism within the Sudanese state.
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