{"id":215040,"date":"2025-11-27T09:37:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T07:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-a-counter-revolutionary-war-by-brutal-elites-backed-by-international-economic-interests-confronts-a-nation-of-resistors\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T09:37:00","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T07:37:00","slug":"sudan-a-counter-revolutionary-war-by-brutal-elites-backed-by-international-economic-interests-confronts-a-nation-of-resistors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-a-counter-revolutionary-war-by-brutal-elites-backed-by-international-economic-interests-confronts-a-nation-of-resistors\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: A Counter-Revolutionary War by Brutal Elites, Backed by International Economic Interests, Confronts a Nation of Resistors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"10\"><em>Interview with Sudanese anthropologist and African studies researcher<\/em><em>Dr. Nisrin Elamin<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"72\"><strong>AllAfrica:<br \/><\/strong><em>Before we discuss the background to the war and what&#8217;s happening to the Sudanese people now, could you characterize the escalating conflict over the past two years. A number of Sudanese I&#8217;ve talked to say they don&#8217;t like to call it a civil war, but a proxy war between armies backed by outside powers. Civilians caught in the middle want peace, stability, and democracy. Do you agree with that assessment?&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202511270002.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Sudan\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/sudan\/\">Sudan<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interview with Sudanese anthropologist and African studies researcherDr. Nisrin Elamin AllAfrica:Before we discuss the background to the war and what&#8217;s happening to the Sudanese people now, could you characterize the escalating conflict over the past two years. A number of Sudanese I&#8217;ve talked to say they don&#8217;t like to call it a civil war, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":215041,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00671918:2b6431c9c808fd07b96bb858cbd66355:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[258,256,28033,16354,25682,52966,3576,14150,19892,4337,10970,257,52967,254,4708,1613,6618],"class_list":["post-215040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-backed","tag-brutal","tag-confronts","tag-counterrevolutionary","tag-economic","tag-elites","tag-interests","tag-international","tag-nation","tag-news","tag-resistors","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-war"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00671918:2b6431c9c808fd07b96bb858cbd66355:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}