Khalid Albaih

Amid Is­rael’s geno­ci­dal war in Gaza, I de­cid­ed to break the echo cham­ber of so­cial me­dia and en­gage pro-Is­rael users.

An army and a mili­tia are de­stroy­ing our coun­try, but we can­not give up; we, the Su­danese peo­ple, will per­se­vere.

In em­brac­ing dic­ta­to­r­i­al tac­tics, Musk is mak­ing the same mis­takes many tyrants made be­fore him.

What can we learn from the fail­ures and suc­cess­es of rev­o­lu­tions in the Arab world over the last 10 years?

In 2011, we knew the tran­si­tion to a de­mo­c­ra­t­ic Libya would be com­pli­cat­ed. Ten years on, we can see it was a fail­ure.

Ten years on, the winds of change that brought us the Arab Spring have kept blow­ing, but not al­ways in our favour.

Ten years on, the sta­tus quo in post-rev­o­lu­tion coun­tries has only had a change of clothes.

More than a year af­ter the Su­danese rev­o­lu­tion top­pled al-Bashir, racism is still ram­pant in the coun­try.

Bil­lions of Brown and Black peo­ple have known re­stric­tions, re­pres­sion and de­pri­va­tion all their lives.

The counter-rev­o­lu­tion has struck and tem­porar­i­ly cleared the streets, but it has not bro­ken the rev­o­lu­tion­ary spir­it.