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Activists marched on the COP27 UN conference in Sharm El-Sheikh on Saturday, demanding reparations for damage caused by climate change in poor regions. | TAG24

As Egypt prepares to host COP27, the country’s most prominent pro-democracy activist, Alaa Abd El Fattah, remains in prison.

Is sort of disengaged in an unhelpful way. im going to quote you khalid 0mar yusuf, who was a member of mr hamdok�*s government. we know that he was detained and beaten after the october coup, and he now says the us has more power and leverage than any other international actor, but washington has failed to sufficiently exercise its influence and the sudanese people expect more. its funny that he expects more, and yet you sit there and you seem entirely satisfied. i did not say that i was enti...

To your neighbour to the north, to egypt? look at everything that has happened since the popular uprising of 2011 in egypt, the egyptian arab spring, the hopes — and then the reality of an entrenched military government led by general sisi. is that not something that could well be the future for sudan? well, with all due respect, as you well know, each and every country has got its own reality and its own internal dynamic. and i stand to believe that sudans dynamic is a little bit different, a...

Will impose their will and have this, and have what they want, and the us will continue to support us and thus others might support us in a different way. well... this is contrary to our own wishes and our own goals and interests. but we appreciate that the us is supporting us in the way that we would like them to do. right, well, i dont want to sound cynical, but when you talk about morality, i think about reality. and surely the reality is that the sudanese military has right now very strong s...

More, and yet you sit there and you seem entirely satisfied. i did not say that i was entirely satisfied, please. i said, there is, i expect a build—up to happen and i am asking for more. i am not here to defend the us policy. im here to work with them in order to see what they can do more. and thats exactly what im doing now. isnt the truth that actually, in sudan today, the us influence is much reduced and the powers that really matter, the actors that have the greatest influence in khartoum...