khartoum the capital is still the focus of the fighting.gateway to the capital or gaining control of the capital. it is significant in terms of the economy of the country. having people return home and try to rebuild. the nobel peace prize winner, malala yousafzai, has urged muslim leaders not to legitimise the taliban government in afghanistan. speaking in the pakistani capital islamabad, the campaigner told a summit on girls education that the taliban didn't see women as human beings. she called on the muslim world to show true leadership on the issue. ms yousafzai was evacuated from pakistan as a fifteen year—old after being shot by the pakistani taliban on her school bus. our pakistan correspondent, azadeh moshiri, was at the conference in islamabad and sent this report. the muslim world league and pakistan's education minister have told us that the taliban government were invited, but they did not attend this summit. when we spoke to the head of the muslim world league about is engaging directly with the taliban government, he said, th

and still khartoum, the capital is still the focus of the fighting.my is making grounds, but this is seen as a key battleground. so medani is a gateway to the capital, regaining control of the capital. so people are very happy. it's very significant in terms of the economy of the country and having people return home and try to rebuild. last summer saw the worst unrest in the uk in more than a decade. the disorder followed the southport knife attacks, fuelled by misinformation spread on social media about the suspect. officers from durham police have been speaking to our reporter peter harris about the violence they faced. it wasjust carnage. we had a line of six police officers and myself with hundreds of people standing in front of you, they were shouting abuse with their weapons. at any moment, that could turn. i genuinely got the feeling on that night the people that were doing it did not care if me or my colleagues made it home that night. as police struggled to contain the riots, durham's cops were deployed to shore up neighbouring forces. their

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don't care was the founding director of confidence advisory, that's a think tank for many based in khartoum. she doesn't expect the laptop and the fight to what we're seeing is that the main fighting party, the sydney's on forces and direct support forces all settling into this new fighting season. we're seeing the old and new weapons that they have bought over the, the rainy season really being put to use. we're seeing the increased missouri sion of different populations across the country, particularly with the strategy of using salvation as it wasn't a rule. and we're seeing that you know, the rhetoric, the, the behind the 2 main uh, belligerent parties, is only increasing it intensity, the racist sometimes fascist rhetoric on both sides. really keeping the engine of the wall going down is going to continue to be really the political footfall between many world powers. i mean, i say not to the same extent as for example, ukraine and palestine off. um, so that is much, much lower down and sort of the wrong. a lot of the pirates you louder, but we all seeing that the more global powers and

displaced. 0pheera mcdoom was the former reuters head of office in sudan and now runs a school in khartoumhe country. unfortunately, with the civilian government after the revolution ousted the former president, the are sf was revolution ousted the former president, the rsf was brought to the capital. it was a militia mainly working in darfur. it was brought by the former president to try to stop him being ousted and, unfortunately, when they came they brought many troops so it became, you know, the people who took over from bashir aligned themselves with the rsf, which was a militia, and almost it became a second army, so when that happened, and you have two armies in a country, many people so this is almost inevitable that they would turn on each other and, unfortunately, they had so many troops and already in the capital which is where almost the entire economy of the country is based so when that happened and they turned on each other in an instant, you had a war that happened in every part of the country and every army base. they turned on each other and it was almost instantaneous. t

ahmed mohammed helped to dig the graves and bury the dead near khartoum. >> most of those people diedf disease and starvation. rsf fighters deprived us of everything. >> the u.s. treasury department levied sanctions on rsf leader mohammad hamdan, also known as hemedti, plus seven rsf-owned companies based in the united arab emirates. the rsf stems from the government-backed janjaweed militias, a largely-arab force that brutally crushed an uprising of non-arabs in the 2000's, killing hundreds of thousands of people. in 2004, the u.s. declared that war in darfur a genocide. years later, a 2020 peace agreement was quickly undone by a coup and subsequent fighting the following year. and by 2023, a full-blown civil war as the rsf fight the sudanese military for control of the country. the war has accelerated an already-dire humanitarian crisis. millions of sudanese are short on food, water, and electricity, and the medical system is on the verge of collapse. the u.s. envoy for sudan tom perriello says some estimates suggest close to 150,000 people have been killed as a result of the confli

in the immediate aftermath of the war, the israelis offered negotiate and the arab in a summit at khartoum in sudan. now war zone in 1967 issued their famous three no's no recognition, no negotiation, no compromise. the second then gurion doctrine conceivably relevant here. i don't think we can say with any confidence what he would have done was he in sadler in israel up to the borders and he believed in preemptive attacks. he said we are a small country. we afford to fight wars on our territory. we have to fight them on other people's territories and 56 war of which he was in charge was fought that way. the 67 war was also fought that way because it was his deciding, such as moshe dayan, who were in of this war or these two wars, because israel's also in the north as well as hamas. the south came because, they were allowed to build up massive military forces and bury them underground, whether bigger syrian would have tolerated a up that goes back almost two decades. we don't know but it was certainly can't to what his doctrine was at the birth of the state i would only add to to a counter

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