Children Of War: Six Orphans 1,000-mile Journey Across Sudan In Search Of Safety

children of war six orphans 1000mile journey across sudan in search of safety

After dysentery killed their mother and the civil war came to their home in Omdurman, Haroun and his young siblings were forced to set off on an epic quest to reach El Geneina They were huddled together on the bare floor of an abandoned house four orphans who had travelled nearly 1,000 miles after having to flee from their home in the city when . Having escaped ferocious fighting around Omdurman, twin city of the capital, Khartoum, they had arrived in Darfur, the sprawling region in western Sudan that has become synonymous with , and widespread during the ongoing conflict between Sudans armed forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces RSF.