Professor Mai Hassan: The Failed "Coup-Proofing" Behind the Recent Violence in Sudan
Fighting has erupted among the armed factions that deposed the country's dictator and promised to make a democracy. What caused relations between the previously allied groups to fall apart?
To learn more about the situation in Sudan, The New Yorker's Isaac Chotiner spoke by phone with Mai Hassan, an associate professor of political science at M.I.T. who has written extensively on the region. During their conversation, which has been edited for length and clarity, they discussed how Sudan got to this point, the role of outside countries in the conflict, and how the roots of the current fighting might lie in the genocide in Darfur.
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Fighting has erupted among the armed factions that deposed the country's dictator and promised to make a democracy. What caused relations between the previously allied groups to fall apart?
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