The Creeping Coup

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🗓️ 18 July 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Sudan has been at the center of a deadly and brutal war for over a year. It's the site of the world's largest hunger crisis, and the world's largest displacement crisis.

On the surface, it's a story about two warring generals vying for power – the latest in a long cycle of power struggles that have plagued Sudan for decades. But it's also a story about the U.S. war on terror, Russia's war in Ukraine, and China's global rise.

Today on the show, we turn back the clock more than a century to untangle the complex web that put Sudan on the path to war.

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0:17.0	What's the last sort of memory that you have of Sudan before you left?
0:25.0	The sea.
0:28.0	The last thing I saw of Sudan was the sea. On April 15th, 2023,
0:45.0	4thre woke up expecting the day to be like any other.
0:51.0	But it was just a normal Saturday suddenly turned into sort of a nightmarish scenario.
0:56.8	She was living in Khart streets of the country's capital.
1:04.0	And immediately we heard that there were shots being fired in the southern part of Khartoum.
1:10.5	The shots grew closer and closer to her home. The airport right at the center of town where I was living had very quickly become the epicenter of the conflict.
1:22.0	Roads became impassable.
1:24.0	Families couldn't reach each other.
1:27.0	The fighting has already killed nearly a hundred civilians since it began Saturday.
1:31.0	Hundreds more are injured.
1:32.0	It was chaos.
1:33.0	Chaos.
1:35.0	Those first few days of the war were gut-frenching and absolutely horrific to go through.
1:41.0	A humanitarian crisis is grown.
1:42.0	A military jet.
1:43.0	Turn to the guys.
1:45.0	A call for the call in the air that was
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