It took the 16-year-old three days to travel just a handful of miles to get to hospital, and he may have died if the bullet had not made a clean entry and exit out of his body.
Moving around the streets of the Sudanese capital has become a life-threatening endeavour. Khartoum descended into an intense city-wide firefight this week, which has also engulfed much of its twin city across the Nile, Omdurman.
