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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Zeinab Mohammed Salih in Khartoum

Sudan medical volunteers detained after being seized from ambulance

Mohamed Ahmed and Mohamed Jamal
Mohamed Ahmed (left) and Mohamed Jamal. Photograph: Supplied

Activists in Sudan have expressed outrage after two medical volunteers were seized from the ambulance they were driving in northern Khartoum and detained for days by army intelligence officers, as airstrikes and clashes continued across the capital.

Mohamed Ahmed and Mohamed Jamal went missing last week while working with other volunteers to reopen the Haj al-Safi hospital in Bahri, which had been forced to close amid heavy fighting between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).

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