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Global News Podcast

Sudan air strike kills many in Omdurman

Global News Podcast

BBC

News, Daily News

4.38.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Hundreds have died and millions forced from their homes in Sudan since April. Also: Zelensky visits Snake Island on 500th day of the war, and Elton John performs the last show of his farewell tour in Sweden.

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

0:17.8

I'm Robin Brandt and in the early hours of Sunday the 9th of July, these are our main

0:23.2

stories. The Sudanese army air strikers killed more than 20 people in Omba.

0:28.5

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0:34.2

the enduring symbol of Ukrainian defiance. And the head of the UN Nuclear Watchdog has faced

0:39.6

protests in Seoul as he seeks to calm fears over the release of contaminated water from

0:45.0

Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant.

0:49.2

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0:59.5

We start in Sudan. Medics say more than 20 people have been killed by an army air strike

1:06.4

in Omba. Witnesses say women and children are among the dead. The fighting there is intensifying

1:12.4

as the conflict between rival military factions enters its fourth month. Repeated mediation

1:18.2

efforts have failed. A journalist in Omba, Zena Muhammad Saleh told the BBC what it was like.

1:24.4

There's a fighter jet over me just now. They come all the time, actually, since 5am in the

1:31.5

morning until the sunset. Last night, for example, they were even at night, which was unusual.

1:38.5

And then the fighter jet, I guess it's a Russian made or a Chinese one, I'm not sure. They

1:43.6

are very fast and come and hit. We always hear back the RSF firing back anti-aircraft as

1:50.1

well. And you could see it as well after the sunset. You'd see it because they look like

1:55.1

stars on the skies. I asked our Africa regional editor, Will Ross, what more do we know about

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