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

I'm Paul Boss and at 13 hours GMT on Friday the 12th of April,

these are our main stories.

We have an exclusive report from Sudan where some areas already affected by war

are now facing famine. There's warning of an imminent Iranian attack on Israel

and a warning that Russia's been bribing members of the European Parliament.

Also in this podcast, mothers missing their daughters.

I still look at their pictures.

Sometimes people say you have other kids, but when I'm alone, it's never easy.

It's one decade since the abduction of Nigeria's Chibok girls.

We have an intergalactic mystery for you. How did a star manage to explode

giving off more light than ever before seen? Millions of people displaced sexual violence endemic and now what's described as a catastrophic hunger crisis.

The conflict in Sudan has been called the world's forgotten

war. It began last April when a rebel group known as the Rapid Support Force took up arms

against the national government. Now, after a year of fighting,

the medical charity Doctors Without Borders says it's found a third of the people

in one refugee camp were malnourished. If the war has been forgotten, that's partly because it's so difficult

for outsiders to gain access, but the BBC has managed to get rear material from one affected

area with the help of a local freelance journalist.

You may have heard a short report about this in our last edition.

Our correspondent Barbara Plet Usher has more.

Here in the Zam Zam Zam camp for displaced people, women and children are queuing for food.

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