Sudan conflict: A front-row seat to my country falling apart - BBC News

Zeinab Mohammed Salih reflects on what has happened to Sudan since fighting broke out a year ago.

1 day agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingImage source, AFPImage caption, A year of conflict has devastated life in large parts of SudanBy Zeinab Mohammed SalihLetter from Africa series, SudanI'm not supposed to cry as a journalist when I am covering stories, but I have been crying a lot lately.

Before December, when I travelled on a reporting trip from my home in the Sudanese city of Omdurman - just across the river from the capital, Khartoum - the only people I would see from my window were those carrying the dead bodies of loved ones on their shoulders.

They were looking for a roadside space to bury the corpses as going to a proper cemetery was too dangerous.

The dead civilians, many killed by bullets and shells, were the collateral damage of a war that began exactly a year ago, when Sudan's two leading military men fell out over the country's political future, after seizing power together in a coup in 2021.

I have lost many friends and acquaintances.

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