United Nations, April 20, 2024 (Reuters/NAN) Some 800,000 people in a Sudanese city are in “extreme and immediate danger” as worsening violence advances and threatens to “unleash bloody inter-communal strife throughout Darfur,” top UN officials warned the Security Council. War erupted in Sudan one year ago between the Sudanese army (SAF) and paramilitary Rapid Support […]
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