War crimes suspect free amid shaky truce in Sudan
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 26 April 2023
⏱️ 31 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:05.2 | Hello, I'm Oliver Conway. |
| 0:06.5 | We are recording this 13 hours GMT on Wednesday, the 26th of April. |
| 0:11.2 | The Sudanese Army says the country's ousted ruler, Omar Al-Bashir, is still in custody, |
| 0:16.6 | despite the escape of another alleged war criminal during the fighting. |
| 0:20.8 | US officials claim that the Taliban have killed the IS leader behind the Kabul Airport bombing. |
| 0:27.1 | And a Taiwanese man who disappeared while visiting China turns up in detention. |
| 0:33.6 | Also in the podcast, Drought forces the Panama Canal authorities to impose a limit on shipping and... |
| 0:42.4 | The only things I'm keeping with the personal gifts that he gave me. |
| 0:46.9 | I decided that if I was going to sell, I had to be brave and sell the lot. |
| 0:52.9 | The huge sale of personal items that once belonged to Queen frontman Freddie Mercury. |
| 1:02.1 | Despite a reduction in violence during the three-day ceasefire in Sudan, |
| 1:06.4 | there have been some clashes in and around Khartoum. |
| 1:09.8 | The RSF paramilitary group is reported to have seized an oil refinery, |
| 1:13.9 | 70 kilometres north of the capital. |
| 1:16.6 | They're also accused of attacking a jail and freeing high profile figures from the detested |
| 1:22.0 | former regime of Omar Al-Bashir. |
| 1:24.6 | The army later confirmed that the ousted former president is still in custody in a military hospital, |
| 1:31.0 | after being moved from the prison before the fighting broke out. |
| 1:35.1 | But his key aid, Ahmed Haroon, who is also wanted for war crimes, did escape. |
| 1:41.1 | Majak Deegat, former Sudanese intelligent official, told my colleague James Coppnell more about him. |
| 1:47.8 | Ahmed Haroon was the deputy interior minister. |
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