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Mark Warner: “The violence in Sudan has caused upwards of 15 million…”

Featuring: Mark Warner, Democratic | U.S. Senate from Virginia

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Senator Warner Delivers Speech on the Third Anniversary of the Conflict in Sudan

Published | Video Starts at 01:14

It was an effort to move towards a democracy. But that move was suddenly halted by two generals each of a separate warring party and unfortunately fueled by external actors. The violence in Sudan has caused upwards of 15 million people to flee their homes. A quarter of the population, and it's left literally half of the country's 50 million people on the brink of starvation and acute hunger. Yet still now three years in. (01:14–01:24)

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