The civil war in Sudan has now reached the one-year mark. Fighting between rival generals of Sudan’s armed forces has turned the country, once on a hopeful path to democracy, into one of the biggest humanitarian crises in the world. Millions of people have had to flee their homes, and thousands of civilians have been killed. The World’s Africa correspondent Halima Gikandi reports from Nairobi, Kenya where many Sudanese have fled.
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