This is the HappyPod from the BBC World Service.

Yes, we're back and we're here to stay, hopefully.

And in this edition we will hear from Sudan, Finland and Lithuania

also brain implants helping a paralyzed man from the Netherlands to walk.

The most surprising thing I think happened after two days.

I could control my hips so there was like the best outcome.

Why some people are taking smiling lessons in Japan?

When COVID restrictions were lifted they were like,

really? So now I have to actually take my masks off.

And the 100 greatest children's books in the world.

I feel like my children who have the privilege of being encouraged to read at a young age

realize it's just a kind of portal into a magical world.

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We begin in Sudan with the rescue of hundreds of children caught up in the war there.

I haven't been very much in the way of positive news from there since mid-April.

But now around 300 children and babies have been successfully evacuated from the

mygoma orphanage in the capital, Khatum, to Wad-Madani in the south of Sudan.

Sarmannetta reports from Nairobi.

After a difficult four-hour drive the relief of finally having reached safety,

the city of Wad-Madani about 200 kilometers south of Khartou.

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