Hundreds of thousands flee Sudan safe haven
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2023
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
The city of Wad Madani in al Jazira state had been home to those escaping the civil war. Also: we hear from one of the Thai hostages released by Hamas about his time in captivity, and Iceland experiences a spectacular volcanic eruption near the capital, Reykjavik.
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| 0:00.0 | Unmissible stories from around the globe from the BBC World Service. |
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| 0:24.0 | Hello, I'm Oliver Conway. |
| 0:27.0 | We're recording this at 14 hours, GMT on Tuesday the 19th of December. |
| 0:31.0 | A quarter of a million people flee a new battle in Sudan as the |
| 0:35.6 | rapid support forces push back the army. Ahead of a vote at the UN Aid Agency's voice |
| 0:40.8 | anger at the humanitarian suffering in Gaza and we hear about |
| 0:45.0 | conditions for hostages held by Hamas from a Thai worker who was recently |
| 0:49.6 | released. Also in the podcast, Iceland witnesses a spectacular volcanic eruption near the capital Reykjavik. |
| 0:59.0 | And... |
| 1:00.0 | In the black market you have pressure of the police and the neighbors and in this environment you have the pressure to perform. |
| 1:07.0 | The cannabis growers in the Netherlands going legal. In the eight months, |
| 1:15.0 | in the eight months since war broke out between two rival armies in Sudan, |
| 1:19.0 | at least 12,000 people have been killed, |
| 1:22.0 | and 7 million have fled. |
| 1:23.7 | Most of the fighting has been centered around the capital Khartoum and in the eastern region of Darfur. |
| 1:29.2 | Many hundreds of thousands of people sought refuge in a city south of Khartoum called Wad Madani. |
| 1:36.0 | But that too has now become caught up in the fighting as the paramilitary rapid support forces |
| 1:41.4 | continue to push back the regular army. |
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