Inside Sudan’s Captagon Trade

Where is captagon production taking hold after the collapse of the Assad regime and disruption of state-sponsored production? In this episode, I talk with Caroline Rose, director of the New Lines Institute’s Crime-Conflict Nexus portfolio, about Sudan’s emergence as a captagon production hub. We discuss how Sudan’s civil war and strategic geography create conducive conditions for production, and explore other places where production is taking hold. We draw on data from the New Lines Institute’s Captagon Trade Database and our latest report on captagon production in Sudan. Stay tuned for more from the Captagon Trade Project.