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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Jack Jeffery and Ashraf Idris

Bodies pile up without burials in Sudan's capital, marooned by a relentless conflict

Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

It was a funeral no one had envisaged: Sadig Abbas’ lifeless body was lowered hastily into a shallow unmarked grave in Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, not long after dawn.

Even the few family members and neighbors who could attend were distracted, scouring the cemetery’s surroundings for warnings of incoming fire, recounted Awad el-Zubeer, a neighbor of the deceased.

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