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South Sudan strained by refugee influx and foreign aid cuts

Season 2026 Episode 226 | 6m 32s

There are few places where the consequences of the Trump administration's cuts to global aid programs are more apparent than South Sudan. With a raging civil war in Sudan to its north, South Sudan is contending not just with its own underserved people, but with more than a million Sudanese refugees. Special correspondent Anna Conkling of Noosphere, a new journalism app, reports.

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