US Sudan envoy warns of '20 year crisis'
Newshour
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🗓️ 8 June 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
The US special envoy to Sudan, Tom Perriello, warns other countries not to seek to benefit from the conflict there. Khartoum, he said, needed aid not arms.
Also in the programme: are sanctions against Russia working? And sea urchins under threat.
(Picture: Adam Hassan, who has an album with pictures of his son and father, who he said were killed by the RSF and Arab militias in the West Darfur town of Murnei in June, sits outside his makeshift shelter in Adre, Chad. Credit: Reuters)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Newsa from the BBC World Service coming to live from our |
| 0:08.0 | studios in Central London I'm Julian Marshall. |
| 0:12.8 | Each day in Sudan, not unlike Gaza or Ukraine, brings a new horror involving civilians. |
| 0:19.4 | On Thursday it was the reported deaths of 40 civilians when RSF paramilitary's Shelled Onderman across the river |
| 0:26.7 | from the capital Khartoum. |
| 0:28.5 | The RSF are General Hermeti's rapid support forces which have been battling the Sudanese army led by General |
| 0:35.4 | Borhan for control of Sudan. |
| 0:38.6 | The RSF also stands accused of carrying out a massacre on Wednesday in Central Sudan in which at |
| 0:45.8 | least 150 people were feared to have died. It's a conflict that has torn the |
| 0:51.0 | country apart. The United Nations is now saying that the number of internally displaced people could soon exceed 10 million, while aid agents is a warning of an already dire humanitarian situation getting even worse. |
| 1:05.0 | Michael Dumford is the East Africa Regional Director for the World Food Program. |
| 1:10.0 | What we already have is very high levels of hunger. Beyond that we've got massive |
| 1:15.3 | levels of displacement and then finally we're seeing increased outbreaks of |
| 1:20.4 | disease and sickness. So when you have hunger, displacement and disease, that is unfortunately the perfect |
| 1:29.2 | recipe for a famine. So even if we don't have it declared next week, that is the |
| 1:36.7 | trajectory that Sudan is moving along and it's not a case of if but when all of the necessary indicators are met. |
| 1:47.0 | And Marsala Kray is head of mission in Sudan for the medical charity MSF. |
| 1:52.0 | She's in Port Sudan. What does she know about what happened in |
| 1:56.1 | Onderman? |
| 1:57.1 | What I can say is that what our team saw in the hospital that we support there is that many civilians came in heavily wounded and this is a result of indeed incoming shelling. I was there myself just over a week ago for about two weeks and it's kind of eerie because every |
| 2:17.3 | day we can hear the outgoing shelling which is very noisy but you know is going to the other side of the river but some days when there is |
| 2:25.5 | silence then suddenly we see the wounded people coming into the hospital and that's when the |
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