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Today, Explained

The new war in Sudan

Today, Explained

Vox

Daily News, Politics, News

4.49.5K Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Foreign powers are arming and funding opposing military leaders in Sudan, who are now battling for control of the country. It’s just the latest in a line of civil conflicts worldwide that are trending longer and more complex. This episode was produced by Miles Bryan, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Michael Raphael, and hosted by Noel King. In this episode of Today, Explained, we misstated the relationship between the German composer Richard Wagner and Adolf Hitler. Rather than Wagner professing Nazi sympathies, as our guest suggested, Hitler was instead a fan of Wagner. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

It was just literally a nightmare. One minute you're leading a normal life looking forward to do normal mundane things going to work, you know, going about your business and then the next day.

0:12.0

Literally the sky just feels like it's falling.

0:15.0

Shama Medivo is trapped in Cartoum Sudan where two military leaders are fighting for control.

0:21.0

Constant constant bombing, shelling, shooting. It just turned into a mad town in like a blink of an eye. You went to sleep and it was calm and you woke up and it was a madhouse.

0:31.0

A madhouse now but Sudan seemed really close to being a democracy.

0:35.0

In 2019 Sudanese people threw out a vicious dictator, Omar Al-Bashir.

0:39.0

Two years later two general staged a coup kind of ending everyone's hopes for a democracy.

0:44.0

Now those two generals are fighting each other in the streets.

0:48.0

Also, several countries that are not Sudan have involved themselves in Sudan's new war.

0:53.0

This is every bit as Byzantine as it sounds and we're going to explain it coming up on today explained.

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