injured, and the fighting began on the 15th of april. so we have got for you a panel of experts to answer your questions about the crisis, and to explore whether our government is doing enough to help. that is what were doing in the first hour, sudan what do you want to know? here is the news from nick hatfield. the uk government says it is contacting uk nationals to offer them places on evacuation flights out of sudan. last night a three day ceasefire came into force in the country. at least 400 people have died in fighting between rival groups. figures show the rate of grocery price rises have slowed slightly this month but analysts say we are still paying 17.3% more than this time last year with sales of the very cheapest value line is increasing by 46%. senior health officials and a government minister are to face questions from mps are both problems and accessing an nhs dentist. the health and social care committee started and inquiry after a bbc investigation found 90
and they were used, instrumental iced by 0mar al bashir to do some of that fighting. and later in 2013, when president 0mar al bashir became nervous about his own position and the loyalty of his own sudanese armed forces, he formalised the position of the rapid support forces, if you like, as a sort of counterbalancing effort and since then they have both been in existence and the rapid support forces have expanded their presence across the whole of sudan. they have been shadowing, if you like, the sudanese armed forces across sudan. wherever the sudanese armed forces had a base or presence, the rapid support forces established a base as well. in a nutshell, that s who they are. they are described as a militia, paramilitary, but really since 2013 you could say they have had some very official status as