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So this is really quite disruptive to the populations there.
This rather suggests that the rapid support forces in this civil war, which has been going on for a long time, they are moving forward, aren't they?
Yeah, they have.
And if you look at the trends for the past nearly one year since they lost control of the capital, Khartoum, they've been using drone attacks, you know, just targeting areas around the capital.
and much even as they have been directing their focus towards the southwest part of the country.
So they've really been intensifying attacks and stepping up pressure on the military, that's the Sudanese army, and particularly in areas which are controlled by the Sudanese army.
Are we any closer to knowing exactly where the RSF are getting their weapons from?
The UN has accused the RSF really of getting support from the United Arab Emirates, which Abu Dhabi has really denied the accusations.
But it's just indicating that possibly based on open source investigations that they have been receiving equipment or logistical support from the UAE.
And that's really helped them to be able to advance and, you know, counter the army and even push forward in the territories where they've been operating in.
Richard Kigoy.
Peter Arnett, the journalist who spent decades dodging bullets and bombs to bring the world eyewitness accounts of war, has died at the age of 91.
Born in New Zealand, he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1966 for his reporting for the Associated Press news agency from Vietnam.
And in 1991, he was one of the few Western correspondents to remain in Baghdad during the first Gulf War.
Richard Hamilton reports.
Peter Arnett joined the AP Bureau in Saigon in 1962.
Four years later, he was with a battalion of American soldiers seeking out North Vietnamese snipers and was standing next to the commander when he paused to read a map.
as the colonel peered at it i heard four loud shots as bullets tore through the map and into his chest a few inches from my face arnott said he sank to the ground at my feet
He stayed in Vietnam until the fall of Saigon in 1975.
In those final days, AP ordered him to destroy the Bureau's papers and photos, but he shipped them back to his apartment in New York.