This video is part of our ongoing series on the Sudanese Revolution, the subsequent counter-revolution and civil war, and their global implications and impact. To support more programming like this, donate here: givebutter.com...
A devastating civil war is raging in Sudan. Largely ignored and underreported in the US media, the civil war has created the largest current humanitarian crisis on earth with over 8 million people displaced, with over 2 million people having fled the country according to the United Nations. The civil war comes in the wake of a glorious democratic revolution in 2018 - 2019 that was led by a broad multi-ethnic people’s movement that ended a 30 year dictatorship. However, the people’s movement was denied the full fruit of its sacrifices by the Sudanese military and it’s US, European, and Arab benefactors who wanted to limit or outright deny the democratic aspirations of the people to retain control over the Sudan’s resources and strategic geo-political positioning, but also to deny the African and Arab worlds of a present day example of direct democracy and liberation.
This third iteration of our series was a conversation Nisrin Elamin on the international dimensions and implications of the counter-revolution and civil war in Sudan. It focuses on what international players and interests undermined the transition to civilian government and what international players and interests are fueling the ongoing civil war with arms, funding, and political cover and why they are doing so. It will analyze what is at play and what is at stake for these players and interests, and what the broader regional and global impacts of this conflagration are and likely will be.
Nisrin Elamin is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology and African Studies at the University of Toronto. Her research focuses on Saudi and Emirati land grabs and on the different forms of resistance they have inspired in the Gezira region of central Sudan. Nisrin is also a member of the Sudan Solidarity Collective which has been supporting local emergency response rooms in the face of a largely absent international aid community and civilian state. The collective has been doing political education around the war in Sudan and is organizing around different issues affecting Sudanese people in Canada and beyond including immigration policies.
15 сен 2024
