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Apr 2023
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Fighting shakes a new three-day truce in...

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We bring you the latest from Sudan, where gunfire has been heard in Khartoum despite a new 72-hour truce being agreed between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). Police in Kenya have exhumed at least 89 bodies believed to be victims of a religious cult in Kenya’s southwest coastal region of Kilifi. And we say goodbye to the legendary ... Show More
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