This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service.

I'm Valerie Sanderson, and in the early hours of Wednesday the 16th of April, these are our main stories.

After two years of war in Sudan, a warning that the world must not turn away from the huge numbers of women and children in the country who are victims of indiscriminate sexual violence.

We hear about a Russian hairdresser who's been jailed

after she was denounced by a neighbor

for criticizing the war in Ukraine.

President Trump suggests that Harvard University

could lose its tax-exempt status

over its refusal to accept government monitoring.

Also in this podcast.

Do you still sell to the US?

No.

Stop production already.

You've stopped production already?

Yeah, all the products are in the warehouse.

Yeah.

In the warehouse, yeah.

The effect of President Trump's trade war on small businesses in China.

There have been dire warnings about the scale of suffering in Sudan as the country's civil war

enters its third year.

Tens of thousands of people have been killed in what aid agencies

have described as a humanitarian crisis worse than Gaza or anywhere else in the world. Millions

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