Military Coup, Thwarted Uprising & Foreign Interference In Sudan, w/ Magdi El Gizouli

Following the 2019 uprising that deposed longtime leader Omar Bashir, Sudan is suffering from an economic disaster, another military coup, neoliberal rot and foreign interference from countries in the region and the West.
To understand what’s happening and why, Rania Khalek was joined by Magdi El Gizouli, a Sudanese academic and fellow of the Rift Valley Institute, as well as frequent commentator and writer on Sudanese affairs on his blog Still Sudan.
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TIME CODES
0:00 Intro
2:02 2019 uprising: What happened & why?
12:05 What are the military’s interests?
14:38 Foreign influence: Egypt, Israel & the Gulf
18:45 Importance of oil to Sudan’s economy
22:34 Consequences of neoliberalism
27:14 Debt, Inflation, hunger & Western duplicity
35:32 IMF pushing removal of subsidies
42:03 1964 failed revolution
46:48 Failed uprisings around the world and capitalist rot
54:50 What did Sudan do in Darfur?
1:01:27 South Sudan
1:04:23 How Ethiopia’s war & dam impact Sudan
1:10:37 Why Omar Bashir’s shifting positions couldn’t save him
1:14:24 Sudan’s integration into the pro-Israel regional security architecture
1:19:57 Why has hunger in the countryside increased?

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[@platosbeard4449]

Rania, your versatility in selecting guests who bring diverse socialist analyses from different parts of the “invisibilised” world is outstanding. This interview had a lot of resonance for me with the condition in Nigeria. Interesting to see that the same IMF policies of the removal of fuel subsidies being forced through by stealth in Nigeria have been applied to Sudan (using the same excuse of the subsidies “benefit the rich”) with devastating effects.

[@wenkeadam362]

Rania, you are a marvel bringing so many fascinating people to your show. Thanks for sharing this interview, it is like a capsule of African reality far beyond the Sudan alone. I lived in Mozambique in the eighties and nineties, from early independence to total sellout, through the exciting years of international solidarity and enormous optimism, through the brutal imposition of WB / IMF structural adjustments that destroyed everything the young government had been trying to build, and witnessed the harsh realism of how people adapt and try to survive through it all. And still there is hope.

[@nugrid1117]

KUSH

[@bankschris82]

Great interview. Thank you, Rania, for bringing this guest onto your show!

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MAAT

[@joeblo7309]

This man Mr El Gizouli really knows his subject matter and this interview was full of insight and information on a place i get little information

[@nugrid1117]

Justice for Sudan!

[@homapirzadeh3930]

Thank you Rania for great interviews you provide for us!!🙏👏👏

[@machkenzie6366]

I love BT 💘. You guys are always coming out with great interviews.

[@nugrid1117]

ASET

[@rachmondhoward2125]

Great work Rania and your guest. It is heartbreaking what happened and continue to happen to such wonderful people.

[@ousmannjie8530]

You show is very important in bringing about the truth, not fake news. You are the best, keep up the good work. We, the revolutionaries need you. There is a lot to learn watching your show. Be vigilant, the struggle continues

[@batessdd]

Great stuff, Rania always brings the good energy !

[@death2colonialism]

This conversation is excellent. One critique I have for Rania is Magdhi is right in saying they don't want to talk about something because they don't know much about the topic. It is a very western way to be involved in all conversations even if our bounds of knowledge are limited. Sometimes we have to accept what we don't know and not speculate.

[@fun_ghoul]

Good point. Also, hi! ✊

[@pepperkoop]

Thank you so much for your reporting and conversations! We love you!

[@dabadaba5847]

amazing guest and interview as always

[@edwardlarkin4279]

Thankyou again for info you provide

[@yaleletfikre6053]

Egypt hand play a big rolls the downfall of Sudan. Sudan lost a good alliance with Ethiopia. Sudan even invaded part of Ethiopia, Thanks God Ethiopia didn't retaliate back. Hopefully Sudan will get back in peace and prosperity.

[@nugrid1117]

I hope all 3 countries can cooperate on peace and development for all

[@jameskelman9856]

Great interview . Thanks Mauchacha

[@sarachiba6012]

Excellent !!! Very Informative Interview 🌺🌸🍃🌺🌸🦋

[@firstphone2129]

First. Good one

[@briopalumpus8676]

very informative

[@lansanakoroma2398]

But what deference it makes Africa is without hope we don’t have internet as a continent

[@nugrid1117]

Join the 5D network today!

[@nugrid1117]

Free the Land

[@fun_ghoul]

The land is fine. It's people who need freedom. Death to [the first one]! Death to [the other one]!

[@golodiassaid4879]

Egypt is behind most of the miseries of Sudan, impoverished and unstable Sudan wouldn't use a drop of Nile water that flows to Egypt. Egypt make sure Sudan remain poor, unstable and divided.

[@Z84g8-cf8oxm]

Very true

[@nugrid1117]

Why not work with Egypt to build a United Afrika for All?!?!

[@golodiassaid4879]

@@nugrid1117 Unity requires all sides to come together to achieve common goals like prospority and peace. However, Egypt over the decades has been playing destructive role in the region. Instead of diplomacy and coperation, they have engaded in distablizing upstream countries. GERD is changing history and I hope many more dams come in the future. I also hope Sudan collaborate with upstream nations to benefit from the dams and other developments.

[@amirfahmi6248]

Glory & victory Russia. 🇷🇺

[@nicholasszegho6768]

I used to have a next door neighbour who was from South Sudan before there was a South Sudan. I was watching RV one day and he was telling his life story on national tv to my surprise. He was Christian and when he was 8 he was kidnapped by a Muslim family and taken to the north to work as a slave for them. When he was an adult he fled to Egypt. They tracked him down and were going to kill him. He was able to get refugee status and moved to Australia.

[@WindowsXP_logon_sound_25yrsago]

The fact they tried to track him down to commit murder is stunning to me. What in the actual f_ck. F_cking ANIMALS! I have nothing PC to say about such phylth. Apparently this is very common in Sudan. I read another story about a young woman who went thru something very similar and eventually escaped to the UK and wrote about her story.

[@fun_ghoul]

Was your neighbour a liar? Or maybe you are...?

[@kakylaid]

Absolute nonsense! Your neighbor was a liar and a stupid one at that.! A lot of Southerners took advantage of their ethnicity and religious affiliation as Christians to achieve asylum in the west, where there was wide sympathy towards persecuted Christians. History of slavery ended decades ago and no one kidnaps a child to enslave him or her, let alone tracks him or her to Egypt to kill. This is not the old American confederacy!