My family and I fall asleep each night not knowing if we are closing our eyes to the world for the last time. Our extended family of 16 — myself, my wife and our six kids, my mother, my sisters and their families — have been sheltering together in fear since the Sudanese civil war began at the end of Ramadan last year.
When we locked ourselves in then, we thought it might be over within a day, a fortnight, or a month at worst. Yet Monday marked the first anniversary of the violent clashes between two warring sides in our military government: the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) led by Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, the army chief, and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group, under
