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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
Politics
Urooba Jamal

Crowdsourcing #safety: How Twitter is helping civilians in Sudan

A view of a street in Khartoum, Sudan on April 18, 2023 [Stringer/Anadolu Agency]

A high school building housing Kenyan teachers and 15 families began to shake as air raids and artillery pounded Sudan’s capital Khartoum.

The stranded group had begun to run out of food and water as fighting between Sudan’s army and its rival paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) intensified, but no help could reach them – so a network of Sudanese civilians, organising mainly through Twitter, sprang into action.

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