Khalid Albaih: ‘In this dark moment of fear and despair, these people give me hope that Sudan can and will have a better, brighter future.’
Since mid-April, Sudan has been in the grips of a struggle for power between the Sudanese armed forces, backing the country's de factor ruler General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and the Rapid Support Forces paramilitary, loyal to General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo. In an opinion piece for Al Jazeera, political cartoonist, activist, and former ICORN resident in Copenhagen Khalid Albaih talks of the 'fear, guilt, and hope' in the wake of the conflict in Sudan.
Observing the developments in his home country from exile, Albaih stated:
‘No one could say when this nightmare would be over. The only thing that was clear was that the Sudanese people who had been protesting for four years now, demanding a democratic civilian government, have been right all along and everyone forcing them to compromise with the army and the militia has been wrong. Now these same brave people are held hostage by the army and the militia and their vicious war.
‘Yet, I have also felt pride in how my people have mobilised yet again in the face of a calamity. As the Sudanese state crumbled and international aid organisations suspended operations, the Sudanese resistance committees took over their vital functions’.
‘In this dark moment of fear and despair, these people give me hope that Sudan can and will have a better, brighter future. They give me hope that soon, my family and I will celebrate Eid in our home in Omdurman, in the safety and security of a prosperous new Sudan, led by a democratically elected civilian government.’
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