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"We were warned to watch out for scorpions as we slept on the ground in the desert" - Ahmed recounts his escape from the conflict in Sudan.

Darfur’s years of systematic violence left the international community outraged – along with a few celebrities. And many of them tried to do something. They tried to save Darfur. At its peak, the Save Darfur movement would be an alliance of more than 190 faith-based organizations from many countries, a reported one million activists, and hundreds of community groups. But by 2016, the movement shut down. So, why did the movement fail – and what does it mean for the violence unleashed in Darfur today?

This is the second of a two-part series on the crisis happening in Darfur. Listen to part one here.

In this episode:

• Rebecca Hamilton (@bechamilton), law professor at American University
• Niemat, women’s rights activist from Darfur
• Nathaniel Raymond (@nattyray11), human rights investigator

Episode credits:

This episode was produced by Amy Walters, David Enders and our host Natasha Del Toro, in for Malika Bilal. Khaled Soltan and Miranda Lin fact-checked this episode.

Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our lead of audience development and engagement is Aya Elmileik. Adam Abou-Gad is our engagement producer.

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

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In Darfur, Sudan's conflict has reawakened old wounds, the divisions drawn along ethnic lines that led to systematic killings a generation ago. Back then, governments worldwide accused government-backed militias of carrying out genocide. Since April this year, a power struggle between two military leaders tore apart Khartoum, the capital, and the country. So, where did those militias come from, and why do they have so many people in Darfur running for their lives again?

This is the first of a two-part series on the crisis happening in Darfur. Listen to part two here.

In this episode:

• Niemat, women’s rights activist from Darfur
• Mat Nashed (@matnashed), freelance journalist covering Sudan

Episode credits:

This episode was produced by Amy Walters, David Enders and our host Natasha del Toro, in for Malika Bilal. Khaled Soltan and Miranda Lin fact-checked this episode.

Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our lead of audience development and engagement is Aya Elmileik. Adam Abou-Gad is our engagement producer.

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

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Fighting between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces, a paramilitary group, has rocked Sudan for six weeks now. The doctors expected to treat the wounded are dealing with crisis after crisis. Supplies are limited and many hospitals that have survived gunfire and shelling are reported to have become military outposts. Doctors also say they face harassment campaigns based on their past political activity. Only a handful of hospitals remain open across the country. The Take hears how medical staff in Sudan are organizing themselves and keeping people alive through the chaos. 

In this episode: 

• Dr. Ahmed Omer, emergency medicine specialist
• Mat Nashed (@matnashed), journalist

Episode credits:

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

Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Tim St. Clair mixed this episode.

Our lead of audience development and engagement is Aya Elmileik. 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.

Connect with us:

@AJEPodcasts on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook

Civil war in Sudan - Ayesha Malik and Joshua Craze discuss the conflict's two main personalities, the international actors involved, centre-periphery relations between Kharthoum and the rest of the country, as well as the current ceasefire and whether it will hold. 

L'essentiel de l'épisode est consacré à une réflexion approfondie sur la musique traditionnel québécoise dans une perspective nord-américaine et sur la figure du Voyageur grâce à l'essai "En montant la rivière" de Sébastien Langlois et Jean-François Létourneau,  publié chez Mémoire D'encrier. On termine l'épisode avec Amadou Sadjo-Barry, expert en relations internationales en mission pour l'ONU en Afrique qui nous explique les derniers éléments qui entourent le conflit au Soudan. 

Elamin Abdelmahmoud's new book "Son of Elsewhere" is about struggling to find a place between two worlds: his birthplace of Sudan and his home in Canada. He talks to host Abdul-Rehman Malik about what it was like to show up in an Ontario town as an African pre-teen who spoke no English; how WWE wrestling gave him an entry point to Canadian society; and why he wants his daughter to grow up feeling the burden of being from "elsewhere."

Elamin Abdelmahmoud is a culture writer for BuzzFeed News and hosts the CBC podcast Pop Chat.

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More info on Son Of Elsewhere:
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/611405/son-of-elsewhere-by-elamin-abdelmahmoud/9780771002229

Read Elamin’s essay “A father's letter to an infant daughter: 'I wanted my last name to be a burden'”:

https://www.macleans.ca/opinion/a-fathers-letter-to-an-infant-daughter-i-wanted-my-last-name-to-be-a-burden/

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On Friday August 30, 2019, former Sudanese president Omar Al Bashir admitted in court that he had received $25 million in cash from the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed Bin Salman(MBS). Mr. Al Bashir is facing corruption and possession of foreign currency charges that could send him in prison for decades. Omar Al Bashir was forced out of office in April 2019 following a massive uprising led by many young people, and a violent response by the Rapid Support Forces(RSF), a police/military unit loyal to Al Bashir. After Al Bashir was deposed, a coalition government was formed between the military and opposition leaders with hopes of peacefully alternating power in preparation for free and democratic elections. Al Bashir was ousted after violent protests led by young Sudanese people many of the leaders of the protests were young women, and they used social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram to spread their message worldwide. Omar Al Bashir who spent nearly three decades as president, financed and supported the ethnic genocide of the populations of the Darfur region that saw over a million deaths and millions of refugees. The atrocities perpetrated by Janjaweed barbarians supported by Al Bashir caused the International Criminal Court to issue an arrest warrant against him for war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity in March 2009. Upon his arrest, millions of dollars in local and foreign currencies were found stashed inside his palace, meanwhile millions of Sudanese youth lacked jobs, education, food, potable water and electricity. This episode analyzes the root cause of issues in Sudan from its inception to independence, and through the multiple coup d’etats that culminated in Omar Al Bashir’s ascension to power, and his eventual demise.

In early April, Sudanese armed forces deposed dictator Omar al-Bashir, who is wanted by the ICC for war crimes and crimes against humanity after nearly three decades of rule.

The Sudanese refugee community in Israel celebrated al-Bashir’s fall, which came after months of protests across Sudan. Along with the excitement of regime change, however, there’s concern that those who deposed al-Bashir are the same generals who committed genocide in his name.

In this episode, our guest Mutasim Ali, a refugee from Darfur and one of the leaders of the Sudanese refugee community in Israel, talks about witnessing a revolution in exile, being a refugee in Israel, and his dreams of returning home.

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The music in this episode is by Ketsa.