He was escaping El-Fasher, the capital of North Darfur state, which is engulfed in a bloody conflict between the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the Sudanese army.
Mohamed has been reporting on the news from this epicenter of the 15-month-long civil war in Sudan. But when things became more dire, he made the decision that it was time to leave.
In May, the only remaining army base in Darfur was the subject of an intensified RSF siege of El-Fasher.
A shell struck Mohamed’s home shortly afterward, and another struck as he was attempting to transport injured neighbors to the hospital. Nineteen individuals were hurt, with five fatalities, Mohamed still carrying shrapnel fragments in his body, and his brother losing an eye.
\After a span of two weeks, Mohamed observed his mother and three brothers leave for the security of neighboring Chad. He claims he stayed behind to keep working to support them.
However, food supplies were cut off as the RSF fighters closed in, trapping residents in an area of indiscriminate shelling and government aircraft.
