🧵For months @AminSikka and I have looked into the outside proxy forces fueling 🇸🇩 Sudan's horrific civil war. Here's what we found:

The Hidden Cost of South Sudan's Oil Boom. Watch our investigative documentary here. https://t.co/JB6vlzW15I

The Hidden Cost of #SouthSudan’s Oil Boom https://t.co/OwxvK67DST Great investigation by @MarksSimon & @okechtabban

For years, the Malaysian oil giant Petronas has known its S Sudan oil wells may be causing congenital disease. Mercedes-Benz, partner in its F1 team, arranged meetings to press for answers. Over a decade later, children are still being born deformed. https://t.co/mUCWEfkeUE

4: Though many have come back, the army lacks funds and hasn’t provided any of the infrastructure, safety or guarantees of services the population needs, leading to many abandoning their decision to return.

3: In recent weeks a major clean up operation has been underway at the international airport in Khartoum as the army-backed govt prepares to move its center back to the capital after years in Port Sudan. 📸@vantortech

2: Nearly 2M people are expected to return to Khartoum by the end of 2025 after the army retook the city from the RSF in March. But following 2 years under rebel control, the city is devastated — with infrastructure bombed out, armed militia roaming the streets, disease and crime

🧵The amount of capital needed to rebuild Sudan is roughly three times the country’s pre-war GDP of around $50 billion. Billions that Sudan doesn’t have. With @AminSikka https://t.co/6MiHGO7pkS

In stories published this year, Bloomberg found patients at World Bank-funded hospitals who said they were denied emergency medical care and held because of unpaid bills. The reporting also showed how whistleblowers raised alarms about what they called pressure to boost revenue.

Reaction. More than 50 human rights organizations, nonprofits and international development experts are calling on the World Bank to investigate its health-care investments in Africa and Asia, citing Bloomberg News articles about alleged patient abuses. https://t.co/1Legt01cjs

In the besieged Sudanese city of El Fasher, starving children eat animal feed, doctors shelters in foxholes and drones fire on approaching U.N. food convoys. https://t.co/JvvF8lr2UE

Qatar branded Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “shameful” and “reckless” after he threatened the Gulf state with further military action https://t.co/7GGv4C09Z8 via @FionamMacDonald @MiretteMagdy7

14 years in the making, the GERD, Africa's largest hydropower dam, is finally being inaugurated today in Ethiopia. But could the project wreak havoc downstream and bring yet more uncertainty to the Horn? https://t.co/4aFPxvQ3WO

Sudan is reeling from a decision in the UAE to ban exports from the military backed government and shopping far and wide — Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Qatar — for new markets. What happens now to the flow of gold? https://t.co/x3LqD74e5O

A landslide flattened an entire village in Sudan’s western Darfur region, leaving at least 1,000 people dead, according to a rebel group that controls the area. https://t.co/2JEBEXwikK

Journalism has brought me into contact with a lot of sources who tried to blow the whistle. Often, those people ask to be anonymous. This is the rare story of someone who took on a major Wall Street firm and is willing to tell her story. 🎁 link:

Well worth your time today: This extraordinary piece of reporting and writing from @kendallttaggart, David Kocieniewski, @MarksSimon and @GavinFinchBBG

3: The first part of the series, published in January, focused on accounts of patients who said they were denied care and held because of unpaid bills. Read it here:

It focuses on what happened after whistleblowers raised alarms about pressure to boost revenue by performing unnecessary procedures at a hospital in Kenya and allegedly falsifying financial reports at one in Pakistan. Here’s the main takeaways. https://t.co/GDKX7adrzQ

🧵We investigated how TPG, one of the world’s biggest private equity funds, told investors — including the World Bank, the Gates Foundation and Bono —  it would expand access to healthcare in Africa only to put profit ahead of patient safety. https://t.co/AU2MSYK3bk

The US postponed a meeting of foreign ministers to discuss the war in Sudan because of a dispute between Egypt and the UAE over the wording of a proposed joint statement, according to people familiar with the matter. https://t.co/0z6ccYLRE8