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I'm Shawn Lay with your weekly exploration of a story that's making news and changing lives.
And this week, not a forgotten crisis, but a wholly ignored crisis.
The words of a senior UN official talking about Sudan's 10 month long civil war at the annual gathering of the world's securocrats in Munich in February.
Impossible to ignore for the 8 million driven from their homes by the fighting.
The largest forced migration in any current conflict, despite a communications blackout.
We'll hear what things are like from those who've managed to escape the killing.
Who's keeping the war going?
Just the combatants?
Or are there more shadowy forces with a stake in Sudan's fate?
Does the appointment of a new US special envoy this week offer hope of fresh momentum in negotiations for peace?
At the very least, does it suggest the world will stop ignoring Sudan?
Just last week the UN pointed to multiple indiscriminate attacks by both the Sudanese armed forces and the Rapid Support Forces, or rsf, in densely populated areas.
This is what Saif Magango of the UN told the BBC.
The toll on civilians has been horrific.
In this report alone, we are seeing attacks on civilians and civilian infrastructure across the country from Khartoum, Omdurman, northern Kurdofan, Darfur.