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From Our Own Correspondent: The Families Fleeing Sudan

25/05/2023

The Families Fleeing Sudan

BBC Radio 4 - From Our Own Correspondent, The Families Fleeing Sudan

Millions have been displaced by violence in Sudan and are struggling to find safety.

Millions of people have been displaced by violence in Sudan, with many heading across the border to South Sudan. The hope is to find safety, but new crises are on the horizon.

Kate Adie introduces stories from South Sudan, Ukraine, the USA, Australia and Sweden.

Millions of people have been displaced by violence in Sudan, with many heading across the border to South Sudan - but can they find safety there, or will they find themselves in yet another crisis? Catherine Byaruhanga has been to the South Sudanese town of Renk, where she met families trying to figure out where to go next.

Ukraine's President, Volodymyr Zelensky, recently returned from the G7 summit in Japan where, where President Joe Biden gave the green light to countries to supply American-made F16 fighters to Ukraine - but just how will these jets help? Our correspondent Abdujalil Abdurasulov gained access to one of Ukraine's air bases and met two fighter pilots.

Chicago has a new mayor. At his swearing-in, Brandon Johnson, a former teacher and union organiser, spoke proudly of his humble beginnings in one of the most violent neighbourhoods in the western hemisphere. Mike Wendling has been to the mayor's neighbourhood of Austin to see how data science is being used to tackle the city's street violence. 

Visitors to Western Australia's Rottnest Island have only recently begun to discover the island's hidden, tragic past.  While many tourists visit the island to see the Quokkas - cute marsupials with happy grins - more and more, like Emma Thomson, are learning about the island's role in the treatment of the indigenous people, the Noongar,

And in Sweden Rob Crossan takes a walk around an area of Stockholm once used by Alfred Nobel to test his famous invention - dynamite. Among the old blast holes, he meets a homeless man taking shelter, and ponders the extremes of Swedish society. 

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