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This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service.

I'm Valerie Sanderson, and at 1700 hours GMT on Friday the 19th of September, these are our main stories.

A strike on a mosque in Darfur kills dozens of people, as the UN warns the conflict in Sudan is intensifying.

The Taliban in Afghanistan released an elderly British couple who'd been detained since February.

Officials in India investigate the death of an African elephant, which was kept alone for much of its life in a zoo.

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In Sudan, civilians are increasingly suffering in the ongoing civil war, which began more than two years ago.

A UN report says there's been a significant increase in the first half of this year in ethnically

motivated killings. The situation is especially bad in the city of Elfasha, the army's last

stronghold in the western Darfur state. It's been besieged for more than a year by the paramilitary rapid support forces.

Li Feng is the UN Human Rights Representative in Sudan.

There are no safe exit routes out of the city.

And civilians are trapped in a situation of impossible choice.

Either stay in Elfasha and risk bombardment, starvation and atrocities

if the RSF overrun the city or flee and face the risk of summary execution, sexual violence

and abduction. In the latest incident in El Fasha, a drone strike is reported to have killed

at least 75 people. I find out more details from our

Africa correspondent Barbara Pletusha. What we have been hearing from residents of Elfasher is that

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