Sudanese civil war (2023–present)

And multiple healthcare facilities all over Sudan have shut down due to a collapse of global funding.

Over 33 million people need medical care due to the 2023 Sudanese Civil War, with almost 20 million people facing food insecurity.

18,000 people at Gederef State's Tanebba Camp have had no access to surgical and maternity wards since early June.

By May, over 45 healthcare centers stopped receiving funding, prompting MSF to urge leaders to take action during the UN General Assembly.

Um, in the, in the early 2000s is really when I kind of remember that being most prominent.

Um, so the question that, that I have here that kind of connects to some of these is, um, that you, you do try to trace some of the different things that are going on and that connect these, uh, events in certain ways, which I think is really valuable and important, right? Because as we get them, you know, especially those of us in the West, it is just sort of like through this, of, oh, we need to-- Like, literally the idea of Save Darfur for, right? Like, like, you know, you Westerners need to give money to this thing so that the NGOs can go in and, you know, save, right? Like, it is a very, um, white saviorists, um, you know, kind of thing that kind of gets brought in that just doesn't even deal at all with, like, what are the historical dynamics at play, you know? Um, so the question I had is you, you write about different historical events and the development of forces related to Darfur and Khartoum, uh, in the same chapter that you really dig into the Sudanese civil war, uh, which obviously is ongoing.

Um, as I mentioned, you know, a lot of us remember that Darfur through that lens of the, the Save Darfur movement, um, as really-- And I do think this is true.

It's, it's one of the first times, I grew up, you know, in the '80s and the '90s, um, it's-- You know, I don't really remember ever encountering Sudan in global discussion in that period of time, you know? Um, and so talk about the historical events you're tracing here, um, that kind of connect some of the different things within Sudanese history that, you know, produce, say, that moment of, of Save Darfur, produce some of the, um...