Sudan’s forgotten dead

Smoke plumes billowing from a fire at a lumber warehouse in southern Khartoum in this file photo. — AFP

SINCE Sudan’s army retook Khartoum in March, Red Crescent volunteers have been working to collect and clear the bodies littering the streets of the war-ravaged capi­tal.

Aida El Sayed, head of the Sudan Red Crescent, said the organisation’s volunteers were finding bodies “in the street, inside the buildings, everywhere”.