Sudan government demands international ceasefire guarantees
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.2 • 7.8K Ratings
🗓️ 7 November 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
The Sudanese government calls for international guarantees that RSF rebels will stick by a ceasefire they have signed up to, before it agrees to do the same. Fears grow of a return to conflict in neighbouring Ethiopia, where government forces and rebels from the northern Tigray region accuse each other of launching attacks. A 17-year-old student in Indonesia is suspected of carrying out a bomb attack at a school in Jakarta, which injured more than 50 people. The EU tightens visa rules for Russian citizens amid growing security fears, after nearly four years of war in Ukraine. The musical composition inspired by a world-leading space observatory. And the government tax lawyer in Washington who is using the federal shutdown to realise a childhood dream: to run a hot dog stand.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:05.8 | This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:10.3 | I'm Ankara to sign at 16 hours GMT on Friday the 7th of November. These are our main stories. |
| 0:15.8 | Sudan's government says it needs international guarantees before agreeing to a ceasefire proposal from the paramilitary |
| 0:21.3 | RSF. Indonesian police say the main suspect behind an explosion at a school mosque which |
| 0:26.7 | injured dozens of students is a fellow pupil. And China launches its most advanced aircraft carrier |
| 0:32.5 | with tech to rival the US. Also in this podcast, |
| 0:38.6 | It is a functional hot dog stand. |
| 0:40.9 | And part of what I'm trying to do in a very small way |
| 0:44.0 | is create a space where people can just hang out, chat, swap stories, and just have fun. |
| 0:50.6 | The tax lawyer who's making the most of the US government shut down by trying out his dream job. |
| 0:59.4 | We begin in Sudan, where the government has called for guarantees from the international community |
| 1:03.6 | that paramilitary rebels, the rapid support forces, will stick to a ceasefire they signed up to on Thursday |
| 1:09.8 | before the army does the same. |
| 1:12.2 | Hopes of the pause in the fighting have been dented by reports of drone strikes near a military base |
| 1:17.2 | and a power station in the army-controlled capital of Khartoum. |
| 1:21.1 | The two sides have been coming under growing international pressure to agree a ceasefire. |
| 1:25.9 | But Sudan's ambassador to South Africa, |
| 1:28.0 | Osman Abu Fatima, Adam Mohamed, said the RSF had broken previous truces and exploited them to gain more |
| 1:34.8 | territory. From our experience, we had many trusses in the beginning of the war. But every time |
| 1:42.5 | we made the ceasefire, there was no respect for the ceasefire from |
| 1:47.8 | the militia. Actually, they are using this truces to position themselves in new areas and to make |
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