Sudan: Hundreds of thousands flee Darfur refugee camp

苏丹:数十万难民逃离达尔富尔难民营

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2025-04-15

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Hundreds of thousands flee Sudan's largest refugee camp in Darfur, after deadly attacks by RSF paramilitaries. Also: ‘God’s architect’ Antoni Gaudí is on the path to sainthood, and the new film inspired by a penguin.
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  • This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

  • I am Andrew Peach and in the early hours of Tuesday, the 15th of April, these are our main stories.

  • Hundreds of thousands of people flee Sudan's largest refugee camp in Darfur after days of attacks by paramilitaries.

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  • It was estimated that half a million people had been living in Zamzam,

  • Sudan's largest camp for people trying to flee the civil war, which is two years old today.

  • According to the UN,

  • hundreds of civilians are dead and 400,000 have fled the camp following an attack by paramilitary rapid support forces which took control of Zamzam in Darfur.

  • The RSF claimed it was being used as a base for fighters aligned with the Sudanese army.

  • Our Africa correspondent, Mayani Jones, told me more about the camp.

  • There was a famine declared there in August,

  • so the people in Zamzam camp were already living very difficult lives and these lives have become even more difficult this weekend.

  • They've had to move once again, 10,000 of them have arrived in the town of Tawila,

  • it's about 70 kilometers away from Zamzam that would usually take you six hours in a car.