Sudan on the Brink

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🗓️ 19 November 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Ongoing civil war in Sudan has left tens of thousands dead, with millions displaced. A country of great natural resources, regional foreign governments have chosen sides—but foreign aid from the US that had mitigated some of the war’s damage is gone. Guest: David Miliband, president and CEO of the International Rescue Committee, former UK foreign secretary 2007-2010. Want more What Next? Subscribe to Slate Plus to access ad-free listening to the whole What Next family and across all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts by clicking “Try Free” at the top of our show page. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to get access wherever you listen. Podcast production by Elena Schwartz, Paige Osburn, Anna Phillips, Madeline Ducharme, and Rob Gunther. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Let's hear from the Chancellor Jeffrey.
0:02.3	From the Chancellor, Nigel.
0:04.0	Chancellor John Norman.
0:05.4	Kenneth.
0:05.9	Gordon.
0:06.4	Allister.
0:06.9	George.
0:07.3	Philip.
0:07.7	Sagi. Sagi. Rishi. Nadeem. Quasi Jeremy. And now, Rachel. Another year. Another budget. Over the past 40 years, we've seen it all. Our experts will continue to filter through the noise and uncertainty, helping you make the most of your tax allowances.
0:24.1	Hargreys Landsdowne. it all. Our experts will continue to filter through the noise and uncertainty, helping you make the
0:22.1	most of your tax allowances. Hargreys lands down, helping Britain invest through it all. Capital
0:27.9	at risk, tax rules applying can change.
0:36.4	Have you been able to watch the videos that have been coming out of Sudan?
0:40.3	I ask because these clips are pretty easy to find, but they're also pretty easy to avoid.
0:48.3	Some of the footage we have obtained from Alfersh is simply too graphic for CNN to broadcast.
0:55.5	Civilians gun down. There are videos of people being shot out in the open. There are videos of
1:01.2	fighters going through a hospital, room by room, and hunting people down. And then there's
1:08.3	evidence of the sheer magnitude of the violence.
1:11.6	Pictures captured from thousands of miles away.
1:15.6	The scale of these attacks are such that evidence of the RSF's atrocities are now visible from space,
1:22.6	with indicators of bodies and what appeared to be large bloodstains detected by experts at the Yale
1:28.0	humanitarian crisis. It's now become a world-leading humanitarian crisis, not just for the
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