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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Leila Aboulela, Reem Abbas, Rania Mamoun, Fatin Abbas and Suzannah Mirghani

‘Khartoum was lit with savage fire’: five Sudanese writers on the country’s nightmare conflict

Author Fatin Abbas in a selfie holding a #KeepEyesOnSudan sign
‘Beyond my shock and fear is anger’: Sudanese author Fatin Abbas. Photograph: Fatin Abbas

Leila Aboulela: ‘By day four of the fighting, my cousin could barely speak, she was too afraid to shower’

When the fighting first started in Khartoum, I hid from the news. I did not want it to hijack my life and inflame the homesickness that crippled my early years in Scotland and nearly ruined my marriage.

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