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This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Janet Jalil and in the

early hours of Sunday the 23rd of April these are our main stories. First fighting in

Sudan's capital cartoon is hampering efforts to evacuate foreign nationals trapped there.

Islamist militants in Marley have killed at least nine people in what appears to have been an

attack on a Russian military camp. Police in Kenya say they've found more than 20 bodies during

an investigation into a cult which allegedly urged worshipers to fast themselves to death.

Also in this podcast, the only difference really between me and the viewers is that I'm rich and talented and they are not. That's the only difference.

The Australian comedian Barry Humphries, best known for his character, Dame Edna Everidge, has died at the age of 89.

As fighting continues to rage in Sudan, efforts to evacuate foreign citizens are gathering

pace. A group of around 150 people from the Gulf, Egypt and Canada managed to escape after traveling in a

convoy to a port in Sudan from where they sailed to the Saudi port of Jeddah. The Saudi foreign

ministry said among those evacuated to Jeddah were diplomats and international officials.

But efforts to rescue other foreign nationals are being hampered by gunfire and explosions in

cartoon. Millions of people remain trapped in the Sudanese capital, many without power or water supplies.

Imhan is a British citizen who's currently in cartoon visiting relatives. She's been in touch with

the British foreign office and is still waiting to hear from them about how she'd be evacuated.

Yes, today we've got an email saying now you can register your name so I've registered my name, my daughter,

my son and since then nothing. It's just a totally frustration. There is no human contact whatsoever.

A correspondent, Calcutta and Yibel Tal, who's following the story from Addis Ababa gave us this

update. There seems to be an intense fighting and some of the residents were describing it as

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