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Today in Focus

Sudan’s warring generals

Today in Focus

The Guardian

Daily News, News

4.65.9K Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Fighting in Sudan is continuing despite an internationally brokered truce. At the heart of the conflict is a power struggle between two powerful generals in a country permanently in the grip of its military. Nesrine Malik reports. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

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0:00.0

This is the Guardian.

0:08.0

Today, how two rival military leaders turn Sudan into a war zone.

0:14.0

The war zone is a war zone.

0:24.0

As the Sudanese army clashes with paramilitary forces, waves of violence have spread throughout the country.

0:32.0

Its capital city, Khartoum, is under siege.

0:36.0

It is terrifying. The city is kind of, it's a ghost city, basically, it's completely empty.

0:42.0

The bodies on the streets, nobody even cover them.

0:46.0

Zainab Muhammad Saleh is reporting for the Guardian from Sudan.

0:50.0

We don't have electricity and there is shortage of water and other essentials.

0:56.0

Food and medicine, I would try to get medicine from my little brother and the pharmacy were all closed yesterday.

1:06.0

Half of the city's hospitals already show unsupplies a being forced to evacuate.

1:12.0

I went to a German teaching hospital yesterday and you know the hospital was devastating.

1:20.0

The doctors were telling me they received more than 300 people since the beginning of the war.

1:26.0

And they were telling me that people could not come immediately after getting shot at for fear of their safety.

1:34.0

So they stayed at home and some of them were bleeding until death.

1:38.0

At the hospital I learned that some of the soldiers, they also stayed at home to change their uniform and come with civilian clothes.

1:46.0

They are worried that the other troops would come and attack them.

1:52.0

Yesterday saw a new attempt to broker a ceasefire, also villains are desperately trying to flee Khartoum.

2:00.0

Khartoum has started taking over many roads when we tried to close to our place.

2:08.0

They started raising the gun when we ran away.

2:14.0

As foreign governments try to get their citizens out, the UN said more than 200 people have been killed and thousands more have been injured.

2:23.0

Fighting is actually going in heart of the city. That's why it's kind of really shocking to the people of Khartoum.

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