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September 25, 20242:36 PM ET
One of the women who’s brought her baby to the malnutrition clinic in Farchana. They’re sitting under mosquito nets.

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The civil war in Sudan has caused the largest displacement crisis in the world. More than 10 million people have fled their homes. Over 2 million of them have gone to neighboring countries, including 600,000 who have headed to Chad, where more refugees arrive every day. In some places, the Sudanese refugees nearly outnumber locals. Food and water were already scarce in Chad because of the arid climate and recurrentdroughts. Resources are strained — and humanitarian aid organizations aren’t able to keep up with the needs of the refugees. NPR’s Fatma Tanis spent the past week reporting from eastern Chad and spoke to Ari Shapiro of All Things Consideredand Leila Fadel of Morning Edition about what she’s seen.
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September 25, 20244:02 AM ET

Hundreds of thousands of Sudanese, fleeing civil war, arrive in Chad hoping for safety and food. What they find, however, is there just isn’t much food. Many refugees are suffering from malnutrition.

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September 21, 20247:44 AM ET

Tens of thousands of Sudanese have fled civil war and are crossing into Chad for safety. At the border, we hear from people — mostly women — on what they’ve seen and experienced that forced them to leave.

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September 19, 20245:45 PM ET

Hundreds of thousands of Sudanese refugees have fled to Chad, where they’re facing increasingly difficult conditions as their presence strains local resources and humanitarian aid organizations.

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September 18, 20242:58 PM ET
Life is uncertain for children in war zones. There, school can be a source of stability or just another thing that war obliterates. We hear reports on what school is like in three of the world’s most active war zones: Sudan, Gaza and Ukraine.
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Enlarge this imageA first-grader’s drawing in the courtyard of Lyceum No 153 in Kyiv, Ukraine, a school damaged this summer after a Russian missile hit a children’s hospital across the street.

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A first-grader’s drawing in the courtyard of Lyceum No 153 in Kyiv, Ukraine, a school damaged this summer after a Russian missile hit a children’s hospital across the street.

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September 16, 20246:09 PM ET

Heavy rains have caused massive flooding and devastation across a number of cities and towns across West and Central Africa, impacting millions of people.

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September 13, 20246:10 PM ET
Benjamin Reuben Zalman-Polun, left, Marcel Malanga and Tyler Thompson, all American citizens, attend a court verdict in DRC, Kinshasa, on charges of taking part in a coup attempt in May 2024.

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KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of Congo — A military tribunal in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Friday handed down death sentences to 37 people, including three US citizens, for their role in a failed coup in the central African nation this summer.
“The court pronounces the strongest sentence: the death penalty,” said Major Freddy Ehume, the president of the tribunal, which was held under a Khaki-green tent in the courtyard of the capital Kinshasa’s Ndolo military prison.
The sentencing ends three months of hearings into the events of May 19, when a group of armed men led by Congolese political exile and longtime US resident Christian Malanga staged an bungled ..

September 13, 20243:06 PM ET
Enlarge this imageThe United Nations flag waves during preparations for the UNGA 2023 at the United Nations headquarters in New York City.

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The United Nations flag waves during preparations for the UNGA 2023 at the United Nations headquarters in New York City.

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The Security Council is the United Nations’ most powerful body, with the ability to impose sanctions and authorize the use of force. There are five permanent members of the council: Russia, France, China, the U.S and Britain. And any one of those permanent members can veto council resolutions. The U.S. is proposing expanding the number of permanent members, including two permanent seats for African countries. We talk to the U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. about the proposal.
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September 12, 20247:22 AM ET

More than a year of conflict has brought one of Africa’s largest countries to its knees and unleashed the world’s greatest humanitarian crisis.

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September 10, 20243:35 PM ET
Uganda’s Rebecca Cheptegei (third from left), died after being set on fire in her home. The man who allegedly attacked her has also died, in a case that has renewed calls for more awareness and protections for women against domestic violence in Kenya.

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A man who allegedly poured gasoline on Ugandan Olympic athlete Rebecca Cheptegei and set her on fire, killing her, has also died of burns, according to the hospital where the two had been treated.
Dickson Ndiema Marangach died at the Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital in Eldoret, Kenya, where distance runner Cheptegei died days ago. Cheptegei — who competed in the Paris Olympics just weeks ago — had been based in Kenya, where many elite runners train.
“The two are reported to have quarrelled earlier over a piece of land where Cheptegei had built her house in Kenya’s Rift Valley,&rdquo..