Figures show over 6 million people displaced in Sudan due to conflict
Newshour
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🗓️ 20 June 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
It is now more than a year since civil war erupted in Sudan following a power struggle between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces. 14 months on, the figures show that over 6 million people have been displaced within the country, with at least one and half million people fleeing across Sudan's borders. The UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi has just got back from the country and explains what he has seen.
Also on the programme, we reflect on the life of actor Donald Sutherland who has died at the age of 88; and we hear from Kenya where young people have taken to the streets to try to force the government to back down on its plan for tax rises.
(Picture: A handout photograph, shows a woman and baby at the Zamzam displacement camp, close to El Fasher in North Darfur, Sudan, January 2024, MSF/Mohamed Zakaria/Handout via REUTERS)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Newshour from the BBC World Service coming to you live from |
| 0:08.0 | London I'm Nula McGovern. The actor Donald Sutherland has died at the age of 88. |
| 0:14.0 | Here he is speaking to the BBC in 2011 about his acting career. |
| 0:19.0 | Not a conventional Hollywood star. |
| 0:21.0 | Would that be fair, do you think? |
| 0:22.0 | Well, I can tell you, I was walking across the Tormek of a Glasgow airport and a young Scottish |
| 0:30.4 | air hostess stopped in front of me through the mist and she said, |
| 0:35.0 | Oh, you're Donald Sutherland aren't you? |
| 0:37.0 | You're not near as ugly as you are in the telly. |
| 0:40.0 | And so yes, yes. And we'll have more on the life and legacy of Donald Sutherland in about 20 minutes time. |
| 0:48.0 | But we begin in Sudan where it is now more than a year since Civil War erupted following a power struggle between the Sudanese armed forces or the SAF and the paramilitary rapid support forces, the ORSF. |
| 1:00.0 | And now 14 months on, some of the figures that are associated with this conflict are |
| 1:04.9 | staggering. There are over 6 million people that have been displaced within the country. |
| 1:09.6 | At least 1.5 million people have fled across Sudan's borders. |
| 1:14.1 | Those figures are according to the UN's Refugee Agency and we will hear from their |
| 1:18.2 | High Commissioner Felipe Grande shortly. |
| 1:20.8 | But the conflict which originated in the capital Khartoum continues to spread. In the Sudanese region of Darfur, |
| 1:27.0 | the city of El Fasher, where hundreds of thousands of civilians fled hoping for safety, are now trapped. and it's because the rapid support |
| 1:34.6 | forces have been trying to capture El Fasher from the Army for over a month. |
| 1:39.8 | Tanzanzil is from that city and she still has family there. |
| 1:43.1 | She described the situation to the BBC from the Ugandan capital, Kampala. |
| 1:47.8 | Visitly my entire family there in a fashure, my parents and my grandmothers and my cousin who are who all of us grew up together so they're still there now |
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