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🗓️ 15 April 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Tens of thousands of people have been killed. Millions have been displaced and brutalized, and sexual violence is widespread.. But there's still no sign of peace.
Also on the programme: Harvard University has federal funding removed after it refuses to accede to demands from the Trump administration. And we hear from the Chinese factories hit by US tariffs.
(Picture: Armed RSF units patrol the streets of el-Geneina Credit: BBC)
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0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Newsar from the BBC World Service coming to you live from our studios in central London. |
0:10.4 | I'm Julian Marshall. |
0:12.4 | A falling out between two warlords in Sudan two years ago has led to the world's worst humanitarian crisis and an upheaval in millions of lives. |
0:24.4 | Oh my God, it's flying over. It's so close. Yeah, I think you can hear it now. |
0:34.9 | Nam, get down, get down, that young woman in the Sudanese capital Khartoum |
0:43.5 | was shouting on the line to us as a fighter jet flew over her home on April 15, 2023. |
0:52.0 | The two military factions that together had seized power from a transitional civilian government |
0:57.4 | had gone to war with each other, the paramilitary rapid support forces against the Srinis |
1:03.1 | National Army. Two years on, the army has managed to rest back control of the capital, |
1:09.2 | but the fighting elsewhere in this vast country continues. |
1:12.9 | It's not just the huge numbers killed, brutalised, raped. It's also the millions who've been |
1:18.6 | displaced, the tens of millions who are hungry. The RSF may have been driven out of |
1:24.8 | cartoon, but they're trying to strengthen their hold in the west of the country. |
1:29.1 | El Fascha, the capital of North Darfur, is the last city in the region still holding out against the RSF. |
1:36.3 | No journalists have been able to reach Elfashah, people living there, shared exclusive footage with the BBC, |
1:43.1 | capturing their daily battle to survive. |
1:46.0 | Heba Bita has this report, which begins in neighbouring Chad. |
1:56.1 | This woman sings at a woman's supporter group at a camp in Adre Chad, |
2:01.1 | home to more than 250,000 refugees from Sudan, |
2:05.3 | where a civil war has wreaked havoc since 2003. |
2:09.1 | The army and the RSF, a paramilitary group formerly part of the armed forces, |
2:13.8 | are fighting for control. |
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