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Mark Warner: “Unemployment now is close to 50% of the whole population [in…”

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 03:43

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 [in Sudan]. A generation of children risk being denied education because how dangerous it is to even go to school. And conditions, unfortunately, may actually get worse. (03:43–03:49)

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