September 2020

PERFORMING ARTS IS NOT A CRIME – ASSAULTING WOMEN AND ARTISTS IS! Sudan is still struggling with militant Islamist ideology

KHARTOUM: Central Khartoum Primary Court issued a verdict against five young artists who were found guilty of public annoyance stipulated in Article 69 of the Criminal Code and Article 77 on the disruption of public safety. They were sentenced to two months imprisonment and a fine of 5,000 SDG (the equivalent of 90,9 USD). This …

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MOURNING HAMDI: THIS IS NOT NORMAL, THIS IS A TRAGEDY

MOGADISHU: We, as the Strategic Initiative for Women in the Horn of Africa (SIHA Network), condemn with the strongest terms the horrendous murder of Hamdi Mohamed Farah, a young woman from Mogadishu, Somalia. Last week, Hamdi was raped by multiple assailants who then murdered her by throwing her off the 6th floor of a building. Hamdi …

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