Conflicted Revisited… Husam Mahjoub – How Foreign States are Fuelling Sudan’s Civil War

This week on Conflicted, we’re unlocking for everyone an episode we
first released a year ago for members of the Conflicted Community —
an interview with Hussam Mahjoub, a Sudanese journalist, political
activist, and founder of the independent TV channel Sudan Bukra,
which has become a vital source of truth amid the chaos of war.
When it was recorded, Sudan was already sliding into catastrophe.
But in the months since, the country has fallen even further into
one of the world’s most devastating wars. The conflict between the
Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces has shattered
the country: communications have collapsed, hospitals have shut,
and millions are displaced or facing famine. In this conversation,
Hussam helps us understand how Sudan got here. He traces the rise
of the RSF from the Janjaweed militias that terrorised Darfur
twenty years ago, and walks us through Sudan’s modern history, from
the long dictatorship of Omar al-Bashir, to the 2019 revolution,
and the collapse of hopes for civilian rule. Hussam also offers an
insider’s view of the regional powers shaping Sudan’s fate — Egypt,
the Gulf states, and Russia’s Wagner network — and how rivalries
over gold, trade, and influence have turned Sudan’s agony into a
proxy struggle. Listening now, his analysis feels prophetic. The
structural forces he identified then have since erupted into the
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