‘We will never, ever escape’: inside the ever-tightening siege of the Sudanese city of El Fasher

Not unreasonably, Mariam Abdelghaffa had imagined her life as a grandmother would be somewhat different. As it was, on the morning of 11 August, she found herself bent double in a trench, awaiting the next onslaught.
It arrived after dawn. She aimed her …
‘We will never, ever escape’: inside the ever-tightening siege of the Sudanese city of El Fasher