Abass Khelani comforts his daughter, Samira Abass (age 4) on the Port Sudan Paediatric Hospital in Port Sudan, Republic of the Sudan on September 3, 2024.
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Abass Khelani comforts his daughter, Samira Abass (age 4) on the Port Sudan Paediatric Hospital in Port Sudan, Republic of the Sudan on September 3, 2024.
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12 million displaced. As many as 150,000 lifeless. Half the nation going through hunger. The straightforward reality? Battle is tearing aside Sudan. NPR’s West Africa correspondent Emmanuel Akinwotu just lately reported close to the center of that preventing. Alongside the best way, he met a younger man who, along with his household, survived for months on flour and water whereas hiding underneath a mattress. He discovered docs caring for the sick and dying at the same time as shells exploded close by. The present humanitarian disaster in Sudan is seen as one of many worst on the earth, however has little international consideration. “They forget about us,” one exhausted physician mentioned. “It’s a forgotten war.”
Sudanese Armed Forces soliders journey to Khartoum at the back of a Toyota pickup truck in Omdurman, Republic of the Sudan on September 7, 2024.
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Sudanese Armed Forces soliders journey to Khartoum at the back of a Toyota pickup truck in Omdurman, Republic of the Sudan on September 7, 2024.
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The Shaykh Gariballa Mosque in outdated Omdurman, Republic of the Sudan on September 6, 2024.
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The Shaykh Gariballa Mosque in outdated Omdurman, Republic of the Sudan on September 6, 2024.
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Dr. Jamal Mohamed instructs one other physician as shelling victims are purchased into the Al Nao Hospital in Omdurman, Republic of the Sudan on September 5, 2024.
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Dr. Jamal Mohamed instructs one other physician as shelling victims are purchased into the Al Nao Hospital in Omdurman, Republic of the Sudan on September 5, 2024.
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Medical doctors try to resuscitate a sufferer of shelling on the Al Nao Hospital in Omdurman, Republic of the Sudan on September 5, 2024. The sufferer was later introduced lifeless.
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Medical doctors try to resuscitate a sufferer of shelling on the Al Nao Hospital in Omdurman, Republic of the Sudan on September 5, 2024. The sufferer was later introduced lifeless.
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The physique of a shelling sufferer lies on a hall ground as one other is positioned subsequent to it on the Al Nao Hospital in Omdurman, Republic of the Sudan on September 5, 2024.
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The physique of a shelling sufferer lies on a hall ground as one other is positioned subsequent to it on the Al Nao Hospital in Omdurman, Republic of the Sudan on September 5, 2024.
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This episode was visitor hosted by Andrew Mambo, produced by Liza Yeager and edited by Jenny Schmidt, Tara Neill and Irene Noguchi. It was fact-checked by Greta Pittenger and the engineer was Gilly Moon.
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