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Sudan: The Forgotten Crisis

Amanpour

CNN

News

4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

We begin in Sudan, where one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises continues to unfold. A year and a half since war broke out between rival generals, millions are lacking food, water, shelter, and medical supplies. Kholood Khair, a Sudanese journalist, joins the show to shed light on what some call a forgotten crisis.  Also on today's show: World Food Program Executive Director Cindy McCain; author Saad Mohseni ("Radio Free Afghanistan"); Atlantic staff writer Jerusalem Demsas  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello everyone and welcome to Amman Four. Here's what's coming up.

0:05.0

One of the world's worst humanitarian catastrophes.

0:09.0

25 million people in Sudan require urgent aid after more than a year of

0:14.4

conflict. Sudanese analyst Kowloud Khair joins me. And with famine-like

0:20.0

conditions in the country leaving millions hungry and desperate, I'll speak to the head of the

0:24.9

World Food Program, Cindy McCain.

0:27.9

Then, we are in a way the canary in the coal market because as long as we continue it means that women can say things they can

0:36.6

appear in front of the camera. Pushing the boundaries of media in Afghanistan

0:41.0

Christian's conversation with the author of Radio Free Afghanistan,

0:45.4

Saad Mussini.

0:47.0

Also ahead.

0:48.0

I think about housing as the fundamental building block of the economy and of people's lives.

0:54.4

Atlantic staff writer Jerusalem Demsas speaks to Hari Sri Navasin about America's housing shortage. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Biana Goldrigge in New York sitting in for Christian

1:17.0

Amanpur.

1:22.9

Sudan is living through a nightmare and the world needs to wake up and help.

1:27.5

Those words from the head of the World Health Organization who visited the country and the

1:31.0

grips of a raging humanitarian crisis, one of the world's worse.

1:35.4

Around 25 million people are in dire need of aid, but the WHO says it has less than

1:40.6

a quarter of the funding they need to provide it.

1:44.2

The true number is hard to pin down, but anywhere between 15,000 to 150,000 people have

1:50.0

been killed since the war broke out between rival generals in early 2023.

1:55.0

Now over 10 million people are displaced.

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