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with me Jake Hanrahan.

Today we're speaking to Yostra Elbegeer.

She is a journalist and she's been covering the Sudan uprising, in my opinion, more obsessively

than anyone else.

She's from Sudan, she's been on the ground, she had to leave, she's been back and forth, and she's going to be telling us how the uprising which initially looked good it toppled, Breshear, is now turning sour with a paramilitary force turning on the people,

firing on unarmed civilians and slaughtering the people that fought to start the uprising in the first place.

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So I guess if you can just start at the beginning and explain why did the uprising happen in the first place?

So I think for the last, I would say three years,

Sudan's economy has just completely spiraled and gone to shit and it's not even, you know,

Sudan was never a wealthy country, it was barely a middle economy country in Africa,

but after the secession with South Sudan the

north lost 70% of its oil reserves and the government hadn't prepared for that. They hadn't, you know, created a diverse

portfolio of investment or focus on agriculture. All of our economy was built on oil. So when South Sudan became independent, the North just

started to crumble and it's actually ironic that the very sort of racist Islamist Arabist rule that Bashid built his presidency on was

the very thing that destroyed him in the end.

And Bichir was essentially a dictator at that time, right?

Bichir has been, was Sudan's president for the last 30 years, so since 1989

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