Paramilitaries pushed out of key state

准军事组织被驱逐出关键州

Global News Podcast

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2025-05-21

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Sudan's army says it has liberated all of Khartoum state from the paramilitary RSF. Also: the UN says new aid supplies have still not been distributed in Gaza, and rapid test could improve treatment for brain tumours.
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  • This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

  • I'm Andrew Peach and at 13 hours GMT on Wednesday the 21st of May, these are our main stories.

  • Sudan's army says it's driven paramilitary forces out of the whole of Khartoum state,

  • marking a significant shift in the civil war.

  • Two days after aid began entering Gaza,

  • the United Nations says no new supplies have reached local people.

  • The German authorities have carried out a dawn raid on members of a suspected far-right group.

  • Also on this podcast, researchers say wildfires are destroying tropical forests at record levels,

  • with the equivalent of nearly 20 football pitches lost every minute.

  • The underlying cause of a lot of this is climate change,

  • which is ultimately fuelled by human activities.

  • But it's not just now.

  • Human activity that physically destroys forests.

  • Fires that might have snuffed out fairly quickly are now spreading further and further.

  • And?

  • They're only on land for about three months while they're raising their chicks.

  • So it gives us an idea of their health, how they're doing.

  • Record numbers of puffins on a small island off the coast of Wales.

  • We begin in Sudan with the two-year conflict that's often called the Forgotten War.

  • Video posted online seems to show soldiers celebrating after Sudan's army said it had taken full control of Khartoum state,