Dozens reportedly killed in Darfur
A doctors group in Sudan has accused the paramilitary RSF of another mass killing of civilians as it continues its offensive against El Fasher.
Reports from western Sudan indicate that dozens of civilians in the western city of El Fasher have been killed in an intense artillery barrage by the paramilitary RSF - or Rapid Support Forces. El Fasher is part of the current frontline of that two year civil war which has also witnessed the displacement of some 13 million people.
The White House Ukraine envoy has condemned heavy Russian airstrikes on Ukraine as egregious and a threat to President Trump's attempts at a peace deal. The death toll from the attacks on Kyiv has risen to 23. We speak to a civilian volunteer in the Ukraine on the latest strikes by Russia.
And two years after a deadly fire in a building occupied by squatters in central Johannesburg burnt down our reporter visits some of the survivors to discuss the housing crisis in the city.
Presenters: James Copnall and Pria Rai
(Photo: A Sudanese person rests having fled various ongoing conflicts between Sudan's army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), in Darfur. Credit: Marwan Mohamed/EPA).
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