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Sep 22, 2024 | 
aljazeera.com | Jérôme Tubiana
Crossing desert and sea, facing pushbacks, racist attacks and homelessness; Sudanese refugees have endured them all. Gravelines, France - On a windy, rainy February day in Gravelines on France’s northern coast, two Sudanese men in a parking lot are struggling to read a bus schedule. Today, the two men are trying to find the next bus to Calais, 21km (13 miles) to the west. The United Kingdom is just 32km (20 miles) across the sea.
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Mar 23, 2024 | 
nybooks.com | Ratik Asokan |Jérôme Tubiana
In February Jérôme Tubiana and Joshua Craze wrote a report for the NYR Online about a series of massacres in Darfur, Sudan, where Arab forces are attacking the non-Arab Masalit community as part of a broader civil war between the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the regular Sudan Armed Forces (SAF).
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Feb 11, 2024 | 
almendron.com | Jérôme Tubiana |Joshua Craze
In 2009 Arbab, a tall, slim, thirty-five-year-old man, was driving a pickup truck in North Darfur province, part of a rebel convoy that had crossed into Sudan from Chad. Aside from a small circle in the windshield through which to see the road, his vehicle was covered in mud, making for a stark contrast with his perfectly clean uniform. The guerillas were trying to hide from the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF), whose fighter jets nonetheless launched optimistic volleys at their convoy.
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Jan 8, 2024 | 
foreignpolicy.com | Jérôme Tubiana
EL GENEINA, SUDAN—Once crowded, El Geneina’s main street was empty other than a few pedestrians in civilian dress, but with AK-47s slung over their shoulders. As our car drove across West Darfur’s capital in October, I was trying to remember the buildings that, two years ago, were packed with displaced people.
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Sep 22, 2023 | 
nybooks.com | Jérôme Tubiana
Imported to the capital by communities displaced in the country’s wars, wrestling has become one of Sudan’s political battlegrounds.
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Jun 30, 2023 | 
aljazeera.com | Jérôme Tubiana
Twenty years of conflict in Sudan, from Darfur to Khartoum and back. In 2003, the Darfur war began. In 2023, a new conflict has engulfed the streets of Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, while violence escalates in the restive western region. Where does this leave Darfur? Jérôme Tubiana, who has reported from the region numerous times since 2004, returned in March and early April 2023, just before the new conflict began. I. Twenty years of warIt is 2023 and Darfur has officially been in conflict for 20 years.
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May 9, 2023 | 
thebaffler.com | Joshua Craze |Jérôme Tubiana |Mariam Barghouti
By the time Immigration and Customs Enforcement had amassed enough passengers to fill up a deportation flight to East Africa, Duol Tut Jock was ready to leave. He “wanted the waiting to end,” he said, and to “get the shackles off.” They remained on for the long flight that had taken Jock from Louisiana to Juba, the capital of South Sudan—a country that hadn’t even existed when he left Africa in 1994, merely three years old, and entered the United States. “Those shackles are cursed,” he said.
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Apr 15, 2023 | 
thenation.com | Jérôme Tubiana |Mychal Denzel Smith
Adam wakes up at dawn, before everyone else, and goes for a run, circling the house he shares in Libya with other migrants, most of whom, like him, are in their teens and from the Horn of Africa. The 14-year-old is always dressed in brightly colored sportswear. After his run—a time when you might catch a rare glimpse of his smile—he jumps rope a few times before returning to the house to do some cleaning. Once the others get up, they play foosball and table tennis.
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Feb 8, 2023 | 
almendron.com | Jérôme Tubiana |Khaled Mattawa
Since the election of a far-right government in Italy in September, Europe’s debate over migration has flared up again. Although it has no legal basis for doing so, the new administration in Rome has been trying to impose a naval blockade against NGO vessels rescuing migrants, who continue to board overcrowded boats for the sake of crossing the Mediterranean Sea between Libya and Italy. Summer, when the sea is calm, is the season of most of the crossings.
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Feb 6, 2023 | 
nybooks.com | Jérôme Tubiana |Khaled Mattawa
Since the election of a far-right government in Italy in September, Europe’s debate over migration has flared up again. Although it has no legal basis for doing so, the new administration in Rome has been trying to impose a naval blockade against NGO vessels rescuing migrants, who continue to board overcrowded boats for the sake of crossing the Mediterranean Sea between Libya and Italy. Summer, when the sea is calm, is the season of most of the crossings.
