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Weekend: Thousands flee Nagorno-Karabakh into Armenia

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Thousands flee Nagorno-Karabakh into Armenia

30/09/2023 GMT

BBC World Service - Weekend, Thousands flee Nagorno-Karabakh into Armenia

The United Nations says it's sending a mission this weekend to assess the situation

The United Nations says it's sending a mission this weekend to assess the situation.

Ninety thousand ethnic Armenians have fled the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh since it was re-taken by Azerbaijan last week after a lightning military campaign. The United Nations says it's sending a mission to the territory this weekend to assess the humanitarian situation, after Azerbaijan said it would allow such a visit to take place.
 
Also in the programme: two deadly suicide bombs have killed dozens of people and injured many more attending Friday prayers in Pakistan; and a man has been arrested over the killing of the US rapper Tupac Shakur in 1996.

Joining Krupa Padhy to discuss this and more is Emma Graham-Harrison, senior international affairs correspondent at the UK’s Guardian newspaper, and Elizia Volkmann, freelance journalist, based in Tunisia. 

(Picture: Ethnic Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh cross the border with Azerbaijan by car, carrying their belongings with them, near the village of Kornidzor in Armenia. Credit: Anatoly Maltsev/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock)

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