Sudanese army finds overwhelming suffering after breaking RSF siege of embattled city
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🗓️ 5 February 2026
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| 0:00.0 | Today, a UN-backed watchgrob group that tracks hunger warned that famine is spreading to more |
| 0:06.6 | parts of Darfur in Western Sudan. Sudan is already enduring the largest humanitarian crisis in the |
| 0:13.4 | world. And today, a paramilitary rebel group, the rapid support forces, struck a military hospital |
| 0:19.7 | reportedly killing at least 22 people. |
| 0:23.1 | The UN says the war between the RSF and Sudan's army has driven 14 million people from their homes |
| 0:29.7 | and killed an estimated 40,000. Nick Schifrin and producer Zaba Varsi spoke to civilians trapped |
| 0:37.3 | in the epicenter of this nearly three-year-old civil war. |
| 0:41.3 | With guns in the air, the Sudanese military declared a city of 100,000 finally free. |
| 0:49.3 | For two years, Cadugli had been strangled by the paramilitary rebel group Rapid Support Forces. |
| 0:57.0 | This week, the streets were strewn with supporters of Sudan's army chief, who declared them liberated. |
| 1:04.0 | Congratulations to the people of Cadugli on the liberation of the city. |
| 1:08.0 | And congratulations to our people in Cadukli on the arrival of the armed |
| 1:11.9 | forces. The armed forces will reach every place in Sudan. |
| 1:15.4 | But this moment follows months of relentless violence. Sudan's armed forces pushed deeper |
| 1:22.5 | into RSF held cities. They broke the RSF siege but revealed overwhelming suffering. |
| 1:29.4 | In a refugee camp outside Kudugli, survivors living in tents after fleeing their homes, |
| 1:35.0 | share stories of hunger and horror. |
| 1:37.6 | Hajab Bahra Elden is one of many here suffering overwhelming grief. |
| 1:42.6 | One of my children died on the road, and when I got here, my twins died together. |
| 1:47.0 | Three of my children have died. Now I have no small child to carry in my arms. |
| 1:52.0 | Mothers who've lost children to hunger and entire families to drone attacks. |
| 1:57.0 | My brother and nephew and son were killed when we left. |
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