According to senior UN officials, the fighting has left the nation in “one of the worst humanitarian nightmares in recent history” and may be the catalyst for the biggest famine catastrophe in history.
Concerns have also been raised about the possibility of what the US dubbed genocide two decades ago reoccurring in Darfur, in the country’s west.
Suddenly, a massive explosion rattles the Omdurman road. Screaming and running in every direction, people say, “Go back, go back, there’ll be another one.” Thick smoke envelops the entire area.
Just a short while ago, the worn-out road was lined with people collecting bread, rice, and veggies from the businesses that had just started to reopen.
Early in February, the Sudanese army took back the city, which is one of the three along the Nile that make up the country’s larger capital, Khartoum.
Daily mortar attacks, like the one that struck in the middle of this main thoroughfare, continue now that civilians have started to return.
It has been challenging for foreign media to obtain access to cover the civil war that broke out in April of last year, but the news has succeeded.
