Families find a new danger in Sudan's battered capital, unexploded shells


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  • Monday, 19 May 2025

A victim of unexploded ordnance lies on a bed while a member of his family touches his head at a hospital in Omdurman, as the Sudanese army deepens control in the city, which is still largely held by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), Sudan April 28, 2025. REUTERS/El Tayeb Siddig

KHARTOUM (Reuters) -The bespectacled, grey-bearded man ran out of the primary school in Khartoum's Amarat district, shaking with shock.

He, like thousands of others, had returned to check on buildings retaken by the army after two years of civil war, only to find a new threat lurking in the rubble of Sudan's capital, in his case an unexploded shell under a pile of old cloth.

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