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Apr 2023
8m 12s

'We need to get out': civilians in Sudan...

RtÉ Radio 1
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Brian, a primary school teacher from Derry, speaks to us from Khartoum where he's living in the basement of his house with his wife and two children; Dr. Osama Ali, from the Sudanese Community Association in Cork, describes efforts to contact family and friends caught up in the fighting.  
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