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Mark Warner: “The World Food Program has declared a famine in parts of…”

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 03:20

… in January of last year, the State Department issued a determination that genocide had literally been committed by the RSF and its allied militias in the Darfur region of Sudan. The World Food Program has declared a famine in parts of southern and western Sudan. And there is a high risk of this famine condition spreading across the balance of the country. Sudan's economy has collapsed. Unemployment now is close to 50% of the whole population. (03:20–03:31)

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