For now, links to reports from the Associated Press, National Public Radio, and Middle East Eye; others are accessible by clicking on their names or initials as highlighted. (Scroll down today’s IRAN, LEBANON and MEDIA.) — MCM

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FROM APRIL 15   ‘Humiliated, broken, powerless’: Sudan enters fourth year of war, by Emmanuel Akinwotu | NPR  In many areas of Sudan even a fragile peace is out of reach. The fighting between the Sudanese army and its former ally, the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, is far from over. Devastating war, now entering its fourth year, has become the world’s largest humanitarian catastrophe. Click HERE to read more, and to listen.

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FROM APRIL 15   Sudan enters a fourth year of war as officials lament ‘abandoned crisis,’ by Samy Magdy and Sam Mednick | AP  PORT SUDAN, Sudan — Famine. Massacres. And now badly needed food and other supplies are under strain. Sudan today entered a fourth year of war that’s been called an “abandoned crisis,” as a new Middle East conflict throws into shadow the fighting that has forced 13 million people to flee their homes. READ MORE . . . Click HERE for same AP report in Spanish.  

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Almost half of Sudan’s lifesaving kitchens have closed in last six months, by Oscar Rickett | Middle East Eye  Nearly half of Sudan’s lifesaving community kitchens have closed down in the last six months because of a lack of international support and the impact of the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, new research from Islamic Relief has found. READ MORE . . .

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