Hello and welcome to News Hour.
It's coming to you live from the BBC World Service Studios in central London.
I'm Tim Franks.
It was two years ago, today, that one of the world's worst crises began.
Oh my God, it's flying over.
It's so close.
Yeah, I think you can hear it now.
Get down, get down.
That young woman in the Sudanese capital Khartoum was shouting on the line to us as a fighter jet flew over her home on April the 15th,
2023.
The two military factions that together had seized power from a transitional civilian government had begun their fight against each other,
the paramilitary rapid support forces against the Sudanese National Army.
Two years on, the army has managed to rest back control of the capital,
but the fighting elsewhere in this vast country continues, the fighting and the suffering on an epic scale.
I called it one of the worst crises in the world.
Humanitarian agencies say it is the worst, indeed the worst some of them have ever seen.
It's not just the great numbers killed, brutalized, raped.
It's also the millions who've been displaced, the tens of millions who are hungry.
The RSF may have been driven out of Khartoum, but they're trying to strengthen their hold in the west of the country.
El Fasheh, the capital of North Darfur, is the last city in the region still holding out against the RSF.