Is a British arms deal helping to fuel the Sudan genocide?
The News Agents
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🗓️ 30 October 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Why are British-made military items being found on the killing fields of Sudan? It's a question that the government has been asked in parliament today, amid escalating reports of the most brutal mass killings of civilians.
The Guardian revealed this week that UK-manufactured military equipment is being used by the RSF militia in Sudan - who are accused of committing genocide in the country by the USA. So what's going on? And could it prompt a rethink of where we sell our military equipment?
Later - is Geert Wilders returning to the wilderness? The Dutch electorate seem to have dealt him a blow with a centrist candidate now the favourite to become the country's next PM. Are there lessons for the PM here in the fight against populism?
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:08.8 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:15.0 | Allah Akbar. |
| 0:16.5 | Allah Akbar. |
| 0:17.8 | Law Akbar. |
| 0:19.6 | Those are shots being fired by the camel-riding paramilitary militia, the RSF in Sudan. |
| 0:28.0 | They're entering the city of Elfasha in Darfur where a bloodbath is unfolding. |
| 0:33.6 | Unspeakable atrocities are taking place. |
| 0:36.1 | But perhaps equally worrying, British military equipment |
| 0:39.2 | has been found on the battlefield. Is it possible that we're inadvertently helping a genocide? |
| 0:47.8 | Welcome to the newsagents. |
| 0:53.9 | The news Agents |
| 0:55.4 | It's John. It's Emily. |
| 0:57.2 | It's Lewis. |
| 0:58.1 | And obviously there have been two really big international conflicts which have shaped |
| 1:03.2 | our news and international news over the past couple of years, Ukraine and Gaza. |
| 1:07.6 | But Sudan has been a sort of subterranean conflict, which hasn't got nearly as much |
| 1:11.9 | attention, but it is bloody. In case you haven't been following it, this is basically the background. |
| 1:16.6 | So this is a war which, or the latest stage of this war, started in April, 23, when the army in |
| 1:23.1 | Sudan turned on the RSF, as Emily mentioned, the rapid support forces. |
| 1:28.1 | This is basically a paramilitary force, which was born from the Janjouid militias |
| 1:33.3 | that brutalized Darfur, which is part of Sudan, in the 2000s. |
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