Episode 04: Sudan

 Protests began in December 2018, in response to inflation, and cuts to bread and gas subsidies by the government in an economic crisis. But more broadly, they were also in response to a thirty-year dictatorship that led to a genocide in Darfur, the imposition of Sharia law, and the independence of the South. Bashir was even indicted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes. The protests led to the fall of dictator Omar Al Bashir, and the creation of a transitional government divided by protest leaders, and the military/RSF (Omar al Bashir’s former personal militia). With the power-sharing deal until the democratic elections that are to be held in 2022, there are still concerns that the military council and previous regime has monopolized over 80% of the private companies. This economic hijacking raises concerns on whether the military council has built a state within the state. 

Guest: Mohammed Elnaiem, PhD student at University of Cambridge, Activist with Black Lives Matter Movement.

• Photo Creds: Ola Alsheikh

• Sound Creds: Sammany Hajo - Sudan Revolts/Youtube