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Democracy Now! 2025-04-17 Thursday

Democracy Now! Audio

Democracy Now!

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4.85.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Headlines for April 17, 2025; Constitutional Crisis: As Trump Ignores Judges’ Orders, Will the Courts Capitulate?; “Need the World to Pay Attention”: Sudan Faces World’s Worst Displacement Crisis After 2 Years of War; Trump Eyes Congo’s “Incredible Mineral Riches” as Armed Conflict Devastates Region; “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This”: Omar El Akkad on Gaza & Western Complicity

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0:00.0

From New York, this is Democracy Now.

0:18.2

Why is the government of El Salvador continuing to imprison a man where they have no evidence he's

0:25.5

committed any crime, and they've not been provided any evidence from the United States

0:29.9

that he's committed a crime?

0:31.0

Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen goes to El Salvador but is blocked from meeting Kilmarmar Abrago-Garcia, the Maryland

0:39.2

father sent to the notorious Secah Megaprism in an administrative error. Meanwhile, a constitutional

0:47.5

crisis is emerging as a judge finds probable cause to hold the Trump administration in criminal contempt for its willful disregard

0:57.6

of his order to stop the first flights of immigrants to El Salvador last month.

1:02.5

We'll get the latest.

1:04.1

Then to Sudan.

1:06.2

As we enter our third year of war in Sudan, our hopes are about to evaporate before our eyes,

1:11.5

especially after the massacre of Zanzum camp, the largest IDP camp in Sudan, and where my family

1:17.3

have lived for nearly 20 years.

1:20.1

If we don't act now, we'll be facing the Alfashire massacre.

1:23.9

We'll speak with Darfurian refugee Emmy Mahmoud and Jan Egland, head of the Norwegian Refugee Council.

1:31.1

He's also just back from a trip to the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, where President

1:37.3

Trump is hoping to cut a mineral deal.

1:40.8

And finally, one day, everyone will have always been against this.

1:46.0

We'll speak with award-winning author Omar al-Aheg, whose new book is out about the war on Gaza.

1:54.6

All that and more coming up.

2:00.6

Welcome to Democracy Now.

2:02.9

Democracy Now.org, the War and Peace Report.

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