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What A Day
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🗓️ 21 April 2023
⏱️ 24 minutes
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The Pentagon is moving American troops to Sudan to prepare for a possible evacuation of the U.S. Embassy in the region. This comes amid a dayslong series of clashes between two warring military factions that has led to hundreds of deaths and injuries.
Buzzfeed is shutting down its entire news division after elevating reporting that rivaled many more established, legacy media outlets for over a decade. The company will also cut another 120 people across its teams, laying off about 15% of its workforce.
And in headlines: A fifth suspect was arrested and charged with murder in connection to the fatal 16th birthday party shooting in Alabama, House Republicans passed a bill that would bar trans women and girls from competing in female sports, and Elon Musk’s Twitter officially discontinued the legacy verification program.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Friday, April 21st. I'm Trayville Anderson. |
| 0:09.0 | And I'm Priyanka Erobindi and this is What A Day. |
| 0:11.8 | Where we have a feeling that Frank Ocean fans will still get to cry through the Sunday |
| 0:15.9 | Coachella Headliner set. Just for different reasons this time. |
| 0:19.8 | Yes, maybe you'll be crying because you spent a whole lot of money to go out there when |
| 0:27.0 | you know you should have. |
| 0:31.0 | On today's show House Republicans have passed a bill that would bar trans women and girls |
| 0:35.6 | from competing in female sports. Plus the time has come to bid Twitter's blue check marks farewell. |
| 0:41.4 | But first, an update on the deteriorating conditions in Sudan. Yesterday, the Pentagon announced |
| 0:46.8 | that it would be moving more American troops to the region to prepare for a possible evacuation |
| 0:51.8 | of the U.S. Embassy in Sudan. This comes as the day's long series of clashes between the two |
| 0:56.8 | warring factions in Sudan continues to intensify. On Thursday, warplanes bombarded the center |
| 1:02.8 | of Cartoum, Sudan's capital. And according to the World Health Organization, the death toll |
| 1:07.2 | has risen to 330 with 3,200 others injured, which is almost certainly an undercount. |
| 1:13.7 | We talked about this story a little bit on the show earlier this week as the fighting |
| 1:16.8 | started. But we wanted to take some time to go deeper into what's going on in Sudan |
| 1:20.9 | right now. |
| 1:21.9 | So can you start by giving us some more background about the factions and how their clashes escalated? |
| 1:28.6 | Definitely. So there are two rival factions of the military in Sudan. They are led by the |
| 1:33.4 | country's two top generals. There's General Abdul Fatah Al-Burhan who leads the Sudanese army. |
| 1:39.7 | And then there's Lieutenant General Muhammad Hamadan who leads the powerful paramilitary group |
| 1:44.3 | known as the Rapid Support Forces or RSF. Prior to this, the RSF fought on behalf of the Sudanese |
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