Paper short abstract:

The article aims to develop a counter-cartography of the Sudan humanitarian crisis based on a collaborative workshop organized in Cairo with the Sudanese diaspora and through stories of resistance collected both within Sudan and in Egypt.

Paper long abstract:

On the 15th of Aprile 2023 the war is Sudan erupted with little signals about the magnitude of the current conflict. Since then, the conflict receive limited media coverage even more in western outlets and the impact of international humanitarian organizations has been really limited. Indeed, many humanitarian organization left the country or suspended their activities. The burden of the war has been on the shoulder of local grassroots organization, like the emergency response room and by the diaspora. This article aims to create a collaborative counter cartography of Sudan humanitarian crises by highlighting the agency of sudanese people and their geographies of resistance and care.

The work is based on a collective mapping workshop organize in Cairo with the Sudanese diaspora that aims to reflect on alternative network and geographies in humanitarian response beyond the role of humanitarian organizations in the frame of 'decolonizing aid'. Moreover, the articles is based on the collection of stories considering storytelling as a political act also by considering the visual aspect trough the use of video.