November 7, 2025 — In this week’s episode of Around the World, hosts Dhruva Jaishankar and Rachel Rizzo unpack Sudan’s escalating civil war and its geopolitical implications for nations such as Eritrea, Djibouti, and Somaliland. They also recap the Netherlands’ latest elections and the potential return to nuclear testing following Trump’s recent announcement.
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Dhruva Jaishankar: Russia, interestingly, has been interested in a port at Port Sudan since at least 2017. And this would be its first base if they were able to establish a military base there in Africa. And it's been complicated by, again, the civil war and the changing geopolitics
Rachel Rizzo: I hit translate, and there seems to be an issue with the Instagram translate function because it translated it into the prime minister of the underworld instead of the prime minister of the Netherlands. And that went totally and it went totally viral in the Netherlands
Dhruva Jaishankar: In summary, we're now in for a new nuclear age, which has some exciting and some terrifying potential, both for energy and for security.
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Dhruva Jaishankar: Hi, I'm Dhruva Jaishankar.
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