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I'm Valerie Sanderson and at $1,700 GMT on Friday the 19th of September these are our main stories.
A strike on a mosque in Darfur kills dozens of people as the UN warns the conflict in Sudan is intensifying.
The Taliban in Afghanistan released an elderly British couple who had been detained since February.
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In Sudan, civilians are increasingly suffering in the ongoing civil war,
which began more than two years ago.
A UN report says there's been a significant increase in the first half of this year in ethnically motivated killings.
The situation is especially bad in the city of El Fasha,
the army's last stronghold in the western Darfur state.
It's been besieged for more than a year by the paramilitary rapid support forces.
Li Feng is the UN human rights representative in Sudan.
There are no safe exit routes out of the city and civilians are trapped in a situation of impossible choice.
Either stay in El Fasha and risk bombardment,
starvation and atrocities
if the RSF overrun the city or flee and face the risk of summary execution,
sexual violence and abduction.