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Weekend: Warring sides step up battle for Sudanese capital

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Warring sides step up battle for Sudanese capital

30/04/2023 GMT

BBC World Service - Weekend, Warring sides step up battle for Sudanese capital

Fighting escalates between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary RSF.

Fighting escalates in the Sudanese capital as the army deploys tanks and launches artillery strikes against the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces. 

Also on the programme: Joe Biden uses the annual White House Correspondents Dinner to call for the release of detained journalists ;and the Italian businessman challenging his country’s culinary orthodoxy by making pasta out of insects. 

Joining Paul Henley to discuss all this and more are journalist and author Rachel Shabi and Karabekir Akkoyunlu, a lecturer in politics and Middle East studies at London University's School of Oriental and African Studies. 

(IMAGE: A burned vehicle is seen in Khartoum, Sudan April 26, 2023. CREDIT: REUTERS/El-Tayeb Siddig/File Photo)

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