{"id":10377,"date":"2026-03-25T15:54:43","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T14:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swud.org\/?p=10377"},"modified":"2026-03-25T15:54:45","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T14:54:45","slug":"hager-ali-im-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swud.org\/en\/hager-ali-im-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview with Hager Ali"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u201eSudan: \u201aWars at war\u2018 and no end in sight?\u201c<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Since 2023, Sudan has been devastated by a new war that is raging with millions of displaced people, massive violence against the civilian population, forced starvation and destruction. Infrastructure and central government have collapsed, while international peace initiatives and sanctions have failed to stop the spiralling violence between the rival armed forces. <strong>Hager Ali<\/strong> has in<strong> Interview with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pw-portal.de\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www.pw-portal.de\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pw-portal<\/a> <\/strong>We talked about the genesis of the war, its protagonists, the history of civil-military relations in Sudan and common misconceptions in negotiations and reporting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can access the interview <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pw-portal.de\/aussen-und-sicherheitspolitik\/ueberblick\/sudan-kriege-im-krieg-und-kein-ende-in-sicht\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www.pw-portal.de\/aussen-und-sicherheitspolitik\/ueberblick\/sudan-kriege-im-krieg-und-kein-ende-in-sicht\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">HERE<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Image: A Sudanese woman in a displaced persons camp near Tawila in North Darfur, July 2025 (Ahmed 222222, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>pw-portal interview with Hager Ali from the German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA) on the war in Sudan.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":10379,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-allgemein"],"acf":[],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/www.swud.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Kachel_pw-portal_Interview_Hager-Ali.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Marie-Louise Potratz","author_link":"https:\/\/www.swud.org\/en\/author\/ml-potratz\/"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - 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