The other side of Sudan – fighting for free speech – BBC News
As part of a series looking at some of the lesser seen sides of some of the world’s most misunderstood countries, Benjamin Zand heads to Sudan. A country long-ravaged by terrorism and civil war – in this episode he meets the people using poetry to fight for free speech, in a place that regularly ranks towards the bottom in press freedom and free speech.
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4:09 The River Nile doesn’t begin at Khartoum, it actually meets with the Blue Nile (Bahar Azrag) in Khartoum. The main River Nile originates from south of the Equator and is known as the White Nile (Bahar Abiadh) from its point of confluence with Bahar El-Ghazal until meeting with the Blue Nile in Khartoum, and before this point the river is called Bahar Al-Jabal, Bahar Subiri and Bahar Gur. That’s to say, the River Nile includes Bahar Al-Jabal, Bhahr Subiri, Bahar Gur and the White Nile all together. (BAHAR means sea in Arabic and it is also used for river in Sudanese colloquial Arabic, instead of the word NAHR which means river ).
AGAIN, IN THE FIRST MINUTE, NO WOMEN APPEARED. @BBC NEWS, please
Governments eventually come to terms with fact that they can’t stop people from sharing their thoughts about what they see and experience
Great poem! It flowed so well.
#BlueForSudan 💙🇸🇩
Once Sudan gets its shit together I guarantee you it’s gonna have the best rappers ever
News means taking on a responsible role to air news. Freedom means making humans taking on individual responsibility to connect humans without limited identity.
Fuck those shit holes
There really does need to be more positivity in this world.
Would love to visit Sudan. My great grandfather lived there for 50 years.
Poet Rajaa is great!
Well, honestly that’s a good poet Benji.
Anyway, when people say Sudan, all I can remember is very sweet Sudanese ladies. They are so sweet and almost give me diabetes by only looking at them.
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the world is so corrupt I wait for the day of judgment everyday
The only black peoples claim themselves Arab I don’t know why
Countries need people like the black guy (apologize for my ignorance but i do not know his race), willing to go the extra mile for his country but not being a nazi nationalist, if the world was full of people like him we would be more advanced not to mention better, keep up the good work buddy.
we glad of your visiting i hoped if i was there
Really enjoy Benjamin Zand’s reporting and travels
Hi
Iam sudan
Actually we are African talk Arabic language is not going to change your race come on people Sudanese are Africans
That was quite a nice poem Benji!👍🏼👏🏼
Lovely video with lovely people! Learned a lot again❤️
Same dirty tricks the BBC was pulling when it entered Syria and now its in chaos. BBC do some real journalism at home you warmongering establishment propagandists……..we see through your imperialist interventionism.
African not arab
we have islamic culture just…
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you’re amazing ben!
every single person of sudan I met were so nice and polite. respect for Sudan
#google_open_internet_for_sudan
The dictator is in jail now.
Revolution of blood only. Sudan will never be your next Libya, Sudanese people are very different then Libyans & Iraq. very happy friendly calm people. don’t waste your time bbc
i would like this to continue so please share it with friends and family help it have a placr
I guess the BBC will just ignore Sudan’s ongoing racist campaign of genocide in Darfur…
(Because, you know, brown people cannot possibly be racist toward black people — after all, white people have a monopoly on racism!)
It’s always great to see the truth in the world. Here in America, there’s almost only propaganda.
That’s pretty brave. Hopefully they get their freedom in the future. Fuck dictators.
IAM from sudan khartoum
African not arab !
this is the dummiest documentary ive seen on sudan and im sudanese and have visited sudan 3 times and documenting a bunch of kids writing poems is tje most irrelevant and pointless thing you can film you need to focus on some real shit thats going on
in sudan
We don’t even get free speech here in the UK, why would I care about another country trying to get it?
Fighting for freedom of speech in the Sudan, but in the UK we have the PC Gestapo, who shut down free speech, and are working on how to arrest people for their definition of inappropriate thought. The Labour party wants more police, not to fight terrorism but to terrorize ordinary UK subjects.
we speak more than arabic over 100 languages lol
A Long Walk to Water
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iam sudanese iwant to ask bbc what do u mean by freedom
Hah that’s my country for ya. 😂😂
Dang I was surprised at how good their English was and how they had phones
Stop portraying Sudan as Arabs there not there Africans unity not everyone who’s Muslim is arab
Here’s a video covering South Sudan about what happened in Sudan in depth https://youtu.be/wpGJi3sZ6zc