Sudan's War: A Reporter's Chronicle of Devastation and Silence in El Fasher
Three Years of Silence Broken
Mohamed Suleiman, a journalist and academic, experienced a moment of overwhelming emotion on 13 January in Port Sudan when his phone, silent for much of Sudan's brutal civil war, finally reconnected. Trapped for months in the western city of El Fasher, largely cut off by a communications blackout, he was inundated with three years' worth of messages – an inventory of loss and relief, including news of deceased colleagues and queries about his survival.
Suleiman describes the silence as almost as deadly as the violence itself, a
