In the context of violent civil war and neo-colonial extraction, Sudan’s Emergency Response Rooms and Congo’s GOMA ACTIF show how community response has stepped in as states and NGOs fail. 

Reading by Lamya.

Artwork by Rory Robertson-Shaw.

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Thanks to the MayDay Rooms for audio studio.