Sudan civil war: 'I lost a baby and then rescued a child as I dodged air strikes in Darfur'

A 19-year-old tells the BBC how she miscarried as she fled attacks in the western Darfur region.

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"I was bleeding on the way," she told the BBC, before hastening to add that she saw people who were "worse off" during her traumatic three-day walk of about 70km (45 miles) from the besieged city of el-Fasher to the small town of Tawila.

Dodging air strikes and militiamen after her miscarriage, Alawia said she and her family came across an infant crying for his mother, who lay dead by the roadside.

Alawia said she picked up the child and took him with her: "We covered the mother and kept going."

Sudan has been wracked by a civil war since fighting broke out between the army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in April 2023, causing one of the world's worst humanitarian crises with more than 12 million people forced to flee their homes.