The Weekend Intelligence: The war the world ignores
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4.3 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 24 August 2024
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of The Weekend Intelligence, Africa correspondent Tom Gardner tells the story of 21st century Sudan. A story bookended by war. Darfur, a state which captured the world’s attention in the early 2000s has once again become an epicentre of violence, disease and famine. Over 25 million people are starving. A fifth of the population has been forced to flee their homes. This latest war is one of unprecedented proportions and yet it is an ignored war, deprived of attention by a world which once made a promise never to let such horrors happen again.
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| 1:25.2 | In December last year, a young woman writing under the pseudonym Zee tweeted that air strikes were coming closer. |
| 1:35.1 | The last one, she wrote, had shaken her whole house. |
| 1:39.3 | Online, people were quick to express their support for the Palestinian cause and those trapped in Gaza. |
| 1:45.9 | Zee had to post another update. |
| 1:48.2 | People are following me thinking I'm tweeting from Gaza. |
| 1:51.0 | No, I'm not. I'm tweeting from Sudan. |
| 1:54.7 | By the time Zee was tweeting, her country had been at war for eight months. |
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