Inside Sudan’s forgotten war: ‘We used donkey carts for the bodies’

‘What I saw was the anger on the faces of the soldiers and the fear on the faces of my family,” says Shiraz Youssef, recalling the moment civil war broke out in her home city of Khartoum in mid-April 2023. Deaf since childhood and able to speak only through sign language, the 22-year-old saw bombs falling, smoke rising, men running with guns. “I saw dead bodies as we ran through the city. My mother tried to protect me but I saw everything.” Her words are translated through a system of hand signals she developed with her friend Dr Tayseer Ebrahim,…