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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Mark Townsend

‘You sneak in and hope you make it back’: the Sudanese volunteers risking it all to bring care to millions

An African man in a navy three-piece suit looking at the camera with three others just silhoutetted to hide their identity
Alsanosi Adam with other volunteers from Sudan's Emergency Response Rooms in London last month to brief the foreign secretary, Yvette Cooper. Photograph: David Levene/Guardian

Doing good gets you killed in Sudan. It was why Amira did not tell her mother when she joined a volunteer group that felt like the only thing stopping her country sliding deeper into dystopia.

Each morningshe secretly crossed the shifting frontline of Sudan’s North Kordofan state. Amira was entering territory held by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), paramilitaries who have committed countless war crimes, including genocide, during the country’s cataclysmic war.

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