From the colonial North–South split to today’s SAF‑vs‑RSF street war, this episode unpacks 70 years of coups, civil wars, and broken peace deals. Oil, gold, and foreign backers turned Sudan into a proxy battleground; Bashir’s 2019 fall opened the door to Khartoum’s 2025 humanitarian nightmare. Yet amid the rubble, grassroots voices still chant “freedom, peace, justice.”