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Rachel Sylvester

Tom Fletcher: ‘I’ve become tougher to protect the idealist inside. But I cry on the plane’

On a stroll through Paris, the UN humanitarian chief talks about bearing witness to the world’s atrocities, finding humanity in the most unlikely places and his own methods for coping with the trauma he sees

Sat 21 Feb 2026

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2025’s biggest stories of the year

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Darfur diary: the road to El Fasher

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Darfur diary: the road to El Fasher
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‘We saw so many bodies that we lost count’: the horror of El Fasher

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‘We saw so many bodies that we lost count’: the horror of El Fasher
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How the UAE put a ‘ring of fire’ round Sudan in a deadly proxy power game

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How the UAE put a ‘ring of fire’ round Sudan in a deadly proxy power game
Sudan’s civil war: reports of mass killings

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Sudan’s civil war: reports of mass killings
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A tragedy foreseen: mass killings in Sudan

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A tragedy foreseen: mass killings in Sudan
Isabel Coles
‘The road is full of dead’: Sudanese leave one hell for another

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‘The road is full of dead’: Sudanese leave one hell for another
Bloodbath in Sudan

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Bloodbath in Sudan
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Kindness amid the killing as families find refuge in Sudan

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Kindness amid the killing as families find refuge in Sudan
In pictures: the liberation of Khartoum

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In pictures: the liberation of Khartoum

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