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Global News Podcast

Sudan fighters accused of storming famine-hit camp

Global News Podcast

BBC

Daily News, News

4.38.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

The paramilitary RSF reported to have stormed Sudan's largest displacement camp. Also: oil clean-up 'scam' warnings ignored by Shell, whistleblower tells BBC, and the beavers who rescued a stalled conservation project.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:05.4

I'm Jackie Leonard and at 14 hours GMT on Wednesday the 12th of February.

0:10.7

These are our main stories.

0:12.3

The paramilitary rapid support forces in Sudan are reported to have stormed the country's largest displacement camp,

0:18.8

which houses half a million people who fled fighting.

0:22.6

The United Nations says it believes 1,400 people were killed during last year's anti-government protests in Bangladesh,

0:29.1

mostly by the security forces. And pressure is growing on the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu,

0:34.9

to clarify his latest Gaza ceasefire demands as the truce edges closer to collapse.

0:42.8

Also in this podcast, between 20 and 60% of our nurses responding reported symptoms of anxiety or reported that they had depression or symptoms of depression.

0:54.6

A snapshot of the mental health burden on nurses around the world.

1:02.8

Zam Zam Camp in North Darfur houses half a million people who have fled violence in Sudan

1:09.0

and who were already facing famine. It's been the target

1:12.7

of shelling since late last year. Now refugees there say the RSF paramilitary group has stormed it.

1:19.0

There's been looting and a market set ablaze. Our correspondent in Nairobi, Barbara Plet Usher,

1:24.9

has been following the story. In terms of the casualties, it's really hard to get a clear picture.

1:29.4

We don't really have information about numbers or injuries or deaths.

1:33.5

What we have heard is that the injured are having a hard time getting treatment

1:37.0

because the hospital in Zam Zam no longer does surgeries.

1:40.8

And the North Darfur Health Minister has also said that people who were injured weren't able to get to the nearby city of Alfeshire.

1:47.0

If you remember, that's the city that's under siege by the RSF.

1:50.1

He says the RSF is blocking the road, although hospitals in Alfeshire have also either been shut down or damaged in the long siege.

1:56.9

In terms of damage in the camp, it seems as if there was quite extensive damage to the market.

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