How Sudan's Democratic Dreams Were Dashed
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🗓️ 18 April 2023
⏱️ 12 minutes
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NPR's Emmanuel Akinwotu explains how two rival generals who had promised to transition the country to civilian rule are instead tearing it apart in a bloody power struggle.
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| 0:00.0 | For Mujah Katibe, the first sign that things were about to get very bad came on Saturday |
| 0:12.2 | morning. |
| 0:13.2 | She woke up at 10 a.m. to a bunch of missed calls. |
| 0:16.7 | One of my friends, he's an army officer. |
| 0:19.0 | He called me eight times and I said, what's wrong with him? |
| 0:23.2 | And when I called him back, he told me like, where are you? |
| 0:26.0 | Don't leave your house because the water started. |
| 0:29.3 | Katibe lives in Khartoum, the capital of Sudan. |
| 0:33.3 | Not long after that call, the city convulsed in violence and chaos. |
| 0:37.9 | She started to hear explosions. |
| 0:40.4 | Then the power went out. |
| 0:41.9 | NPR's Emanuel Akhenwo-Tou is covering the conflict from his post in Lagos, Nigeria. |
| 0:48.6 | And he's been reaching out via WhatsApp to people in Khartoum, including Mujah Katibe. |
| 0:53.6 | I can hear you very well, but I have a big headache because of the stress. |
| 0:58.2 | She says she hasn't been able to buy food, so she's rationing what she has. |
| 1:02.2 | I don't have enough water. |
| 1:04.1 | And since yesterday, I didn't eat more than one bread. |
| 1:07.2 | I was just taking small piece of cheese and I'm just drinking coffee. |
| 1:12.2 | How can I buy food or how can I... |
| 1:14.4 | I don't know. |
| 1:15.4 | No one was ready for a good seedle. |
| 1:18.2 | Katibe is one of six million people in Khartoum and more in other parts of the country |
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