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Podcast: New Thinking for a New World - a Tallberg Foundation Podcast
Episode: Africa's Arc of Misery: Sudan
Description: Samah Salman, a Sudanese businesswoman and civil society leader shares her insights on the situation and efforts for peace.
Sudan is at war with itself. The revolution that drove Omar al-Bashir from office after 30 years produced coups, conflict and military rule rather than peace, democracy and prosperity. Today two generals—Abdel Fattah al-Burhan of the Sudanese Army and Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo of the Rapid Support Forces—are locked in mortal combat for control. The price of their rivalry is enormous: hundreds dead, millions displaced internally and across borders, spreading hunger and disease, and a crushed economy.
The trag...