Is Sudan 'too complicated' for your newsfeed? | Khalid Albaih
Published date: 19 February 2026 11:02 GMT
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Last update: 2 weeks 6 days ago
‘We have to be killed in 4K for people to know about it.’
Sudan is facing what the UN has described as the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, yet the war devastating the country remains largely absent from mainstream news coverage.
In this episode of Real Talk, Sudanese political cartoonist Khalid Albaih joins Mohamed Hashem to explain why Sudan is so easily ignored, from the dangers of documenting the war, to disinformation, foreign interference, and the erasure of Sudanese history.
Sudan is facing what the UN has described as the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, yet the war devastating the country remains largely absent from mainstream news coverage.
In this episode of Real Talk, Sudanese political cartoonist Khalid Albaih joins Mohamed Hashem to explain why Sudan is so easily ignored, from the dangers of documenting the war, to disinformation, foreign interference, and the erasure of Sudanese history.
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