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Jun 2023
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How desperate is the situation in El Gen...

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In 2003, Darfur hit the international news – and the world grew used to seeing images of burning villages and people fleeing for their lives. Hundreds of thousands died and millions were displaced. But now the people there are again suffering a horror of an eye-watering scale. With the whole of Sudan at war and the Sudanese Army pulling out of much of t ... Show More
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