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To Africa, the Sudan, a profound civil war.

The headline in the Financial Times tells a story, however, of outside forces,

called external actors.

We can name some of them.

I welcome Gregory Coppley, editor and publisher of Defense and Foreign Affairs

to help me understand the scale of this and what is the ambition of these outside actors.

The headline in F.T.

This is an article by David Piling of the F.T.

Warren Sudan is being fueled by a web of external actors.

The conflict goes to subhead that is displaced 10 million people

is made more intractable by proxy players and Tangle objectives.

As I understand there are two major forces at odds.

One is the military, the Sudanese military, led by a man named Albert Han, and he is backed up by Egypt and Saudi Arabia. The other is the

rapid support force which the F.T. identifies as a paramilitary group, led by a man who's a former camel trader who's called Hemati, his name

is Mohammed Hamdan Daugalo, and he's supported by the U.A. and Russia.

Gregory, a very good evening to you.

This is a strange mix of outside actors

involved in the Sudan, Tangle. What is it that these factions want? Why are they battling

out feeding weapons into a place where the famine is dominant? Good evening to you.

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