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As the year wraps up, we're looking back at ten of the episodes that defined our year at The Take. This originally aired on April 19.

Al Jazeera is on the ground in Sudan as days of fighting have consumed the capital, Khartoum. The violence is between the country’s army and a powerful paramilitary group known as the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). The two forces’ uneasy alliance broke down during negotiations involving the transition from a military government to civilian rule. Will that transition ever happen – or is Sudan about to break out into civil war?

In this episode: 

• Hiba Morgan (@hiba_morgan), Al Jazeera Sudan Correspondent

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This episode was produced by Ashish Malhotra with Negin Owliaei and our host, Malika Bilal. Miranda Lin fact-checked this episode.

Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Munera Al Dosari and Adam Abou-Gad are our engagement producers. 

Alexandra Locke is The Take’s executive producer and Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera's head of audio.

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The Sudan war is bloody and brutal. Two great warlords slug it out for dominion. Chances that one or other can win outright are slim. General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, the commander of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), and Gen. Mohamed Hamdan Dagolo, popularly known as Hemedti, the leader of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), compete with one another to exert control over Sudan. The NCF has a detailed blog on the subject. However, Next Century Foundation Secretary General gives his more personal take on the reasons for this latest in the long series of Sudan wars.

Reflections and observations from William Morris, Secretary General of the Next Century Foundation

Sudan ordusu ve paramiliter “Hızlı Destek Kuvvetleri” arasındaki çatışmalarda çok sayıda kişi hayatını kaybetti, binlerce kişi de yaralandı. Başkent Hartum ve diğer çatışma bölgelerindeki durum, geleceğe dair hangi senaryoların baskın olacağını gösteriyor ORSAM’dan Kuzey Afrika Uzmanı Kaan Devecioğlu ile konuştuk.

In the early hours of October 25, reports started to emerge from Sudan that Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok had been arrested. As the hours passed, it became clear what had unfolded: a coup was taking place, two years after Sudan's revolution, and just weeks before a transitional government was to be handed over to civilians. We talk to people in Sudan and the diaspora about what the military takeover could mean for the country’s path to civilian governance. 

In this episode: 

• Isma’il Kushkush (@ikushkush), journalist
• Marine Alneel (@MarineAlneel), protester 
• Nisrin Elamin (@minlayla77), Assistant Professor of international studies at Bryn Mawr 

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