Brad Phillips with an Emergency Sudan Update

November 6, 2025·1 hr 6 min·5 clips

Brad Phillips details how the SAF uses chemical weapons and dumps bodies in rivers, sparking cholera outbreaks in Sudan.

Aloha opens into alarm. Jones explains why he is recording from the gym, then drops the casual tone because Sudan has become an emergency. Brad Phillips carries most of the account. Jones presents him as a long-serving Africa worker whose knowledge of Sudan comes from decades near vulnerable people. The conversation moves fast. Phillips describes a country split by displacement, Islamic state power, famine, and violence. He says half of Sudan's 50 million people have left the country. Of the remaining 25 million, he says 15 million face famine, with severe wasting making ordinary food dangerous unless people are fed back carefully. Children stay at the center. Phillips says therapeutic feeding is reaching children and pregnant or lactating mothers, and describes hundreds of children a day in the Nuba Mountains as displaced people pour in. The episode also pushes against polite humanitarian language. Phillips says talk about access can hide manipulation, including a claimed aid effort that he says involved weapons. Jones keeps asking what they need now. The outrage settles on vulnerable people, especially as Phillips recalls massacres and blockades. The violence is bluntly named: throat-cutting, beheading, and attacks that came before wider attention to similar brutality. The ending turns into an appeal. Jones ties the crisis to the Vulnerable People Project, asks listeners to watch the movie, and urges them to donate what they can.

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A blunt Sudan update built around catastrophe, displacement, and violence against Christians.

The episode treats Sudan like a live alarm bell, with Jason Jones bringing back Brad Phillips for a fast, tense account of catastrophe, confusion in the news, displacement, famine, and violence against Christians.

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You want an urgent, direct update on Sudan with no soft-pedaling.

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