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Thursday, February 23, 2012

Video from Sudan’s Nuba Mountains - By Nick Kristof

My Thursday column reports from Sudan’s Nuba Mountains on the humanitarian catastrophe building there. But print can’t do justice to the scenes of people living in caves as they shelter from indiscriminate bombings. I traveled with a Times video journalist, Brent McDonald, who put together this video from the trip:


Posted by Joe Koster at 2/23/2012
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