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Newshour: 20/06/2024 20:06 GMT: Figures show over six million people displaced in Sudan due to conflict

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20/06/2024 20:06 GMT

20/06/2024 20:06 GMT: Figures show over six million people displaced in Sudan due to conflict

Figures show over six million people displaced in Sudan due to conflict

BBC World Service - Newshour, Figures show over six million people displaced in Sudan due to conflict

The UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi speaks to Nuala McGovern

The UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi tells Nuala McGovern that the civil war in Sudan is not getting any easier to solve.

It is now more than a year since civil war erupted in Sudan following a power struggle between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces. 14 months on, the figures show that over 6 million people have been displaced within the country, with at least one and half million people fleeing across Sudan's borders. The UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi has just got back from the country and explains what he has seen.

Also on the programme, we reflect on the life of actor Donald Sutherland who has died at the age of 88; and we hear from Kenya where young people have taken to the streets to try to force the government to back down on its plan for tax rises. 

(Picture: A handout photograph, shows a woman and baby at the Zamzam displacement camp, close to El Fasher in North Darfur, Sudan, January 2024, MSF/Mohamed Zakaria/Handout via REUTERS)

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