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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
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Arwa Ibrahim

Sudan doctors caught in fighting recount horrors at hospitals

A ward at a hospital in el-Fasher in North Darfur is crowded with people wounded in more than a week of fighting between Sudan's army and the RSF paramilitary [File: Ali Shukur/MSF/AFP]

When Alhindy Saad Mustafa, a 40-year-old Sudanese doctor, heard the first blasts of heavy artillery pierce the sunny blue skies of Sudan’s capital city, Khartoum, he was already at work during a busy shift at Al-Moalem Medical City.

It was about 9am on April 15 at the sprawling private hospital 5km (3 miles) north of Khartoum International Airport – an epicentre of fighting in a violent power struggle between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).

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