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In tonight's edition :Unicef issues it largest ever emergency funding appeal. It says it needs 4.2 billion dollars to help close to 60 million children across the globe, including several African nations. The United States is moving toward a normalisation of diplomatic relations with Sudan. For the first time in 23 years, the US will have an ambassador in Khartoum. And a Senegalese tribunal sentences the head of a Koranic school to a two-year suspended sentence. The man was found guilty of chaining children inside the school.

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