BBC OS Conversations: Sudan's war - One year on
The Documentary Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 13 April 2024
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Sudan has experienced a year of civil war. It’s been described by the United Nations as “one of the worst humanitarian nightmares in recent history”. Over the past 12 months, we’ve heard from people in Sudan living through the violence and destruction. More than 14,000 people have died and more than 8 million people have been driven from their homes . In this edition, with Luke Jones and James Reynolds, we hear from Omnia, a recent college graduate, whose been separated from her family for a year. Her life stopped when the fighting began: “I have experienced displacement four times. I have experienced living in a war zone under bombings and shellings and mass shootings. Life has changed completely from what it was. But I would also say it’s a year of resilience and strength that I did not know I had in me.” Another of our guests is Samreen. She is an aid worker in Sudan, herself displaced by the war. She describes how overwhelmed she can be by requests for help: ”Knowing that you’re an aid worker, they ask you for stuff, they ask you to flee the country, they ask you to get to other safer locations, they ask you to help them in asylum seeking and there’s so little that we can do.” A Boffin Media production in partnership with the BBC OS team.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello I'm Luke Jones. Welcome to the documentary from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:04.0 | In BBC OS conversations we bring people together to share their experiences. |
| 0:09.0 | This time, one year after Civil War broke out in Sudan, |
| 0:12.0 | our conversations include aid workers who've become |
| 0:15.0 | used to negotiating with men with guns, and residents who've been displaced inside the country |
| 0:20.6 | multiple times as they try and escape the violence which has brought |
| 0:23.8 | chaos to their homeland and keeps them separated from their families. |
| 0:29.4 | It's been described by the United Nations as one of the worst humanitarian |
| 0:34.8 | nightmares in recent history. Over the past 12 months we've heard from people in |
| 0:39.2 | Sudan who've been living through the Civil War and in edition, we're reaching out again to hear what their lives are like now. |
| 0:47.0 | This is a very depressive and devastating feeling that we see our country is just slipping out of our hands like this. A year of war has killed an estimated 14,000 people, though the figure is likely to be |
| 1:09.3 | higher and there are multiple accounts of violent atrocities. |
| 1:13.0 | One person we've been in touch with is Mohammed, a medic. |
| 1:17.0 | He's made the decision to remain in the capital cartoon, |
| 1:20.0 | despite the city having been devastated in the clashes. I should explain the lengths that |
| 1:24.4 | Mohammed has gone to to actually let us hear his story. To get online in Khartoum, you need to go to an |
| 1:30.3 | internet centre. You'll hear our guests refer to Starlink, which is the internet |
| 1:35.0 | provision there. Mohammed has generously walked several kilometers to one of these centers |
| 1:39.9 | for us, but unfortunately he was not able to make a live connection to us, but he did |
| 1:44.0 | manage to send this message describing what life is like now. |
| 1:48.0 | I live in the capital, the capital of the city. |
| 1:51.2 | I'm here with my family, half of the family are in Egypt, refugees, |
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