Sudan families search for their missing kin amid bloody chaos
A woman walks with bags of bread along a street in Khartoum on April 18, 2023. Mafqoud spokesman estimates about 250 people have been reported missing since the Sudan fighting began, majority of them elderly, the disabled and children. PHOTO | AFP
As fighting raged in Sudan's capital, Ayman Abu Arki and his uncle Hossam went out to go buy some water for the family, but then stopped answering their phones.
Their panicked family desperate for news, kept dialling their numbers but then turned to social media as many others have done to search for those missing amid the bloody chaos.