Sudanese Media Forum: Joint News Room Prepared and Edited by: Radio Dabanga   January 8, 2025 (EL FASHER) – I didn’t recognize his face. He was swimming in his trousers, cinched with a rope at the waist to keep them from falling. His shirt hung like a robe, drying on a line strung between two posts. He moved lightly… He spoke, extending his hand towards me from afar, waving in greeting as artillery fire echoes resonated towards the “Um Dafso” market and the south of El Fasher. In contrast, columns of smoke billowed into the sky in the direction of the Abu Shouk displacement camp, which had witnessed widespread destruction and dozens of deaths and injuries due to months of artillery shelling by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), and finally by airstrikes from the Sudanese army’s air force. I raised my right hand, waving back in greeting… He said, approaching me, “I think you didn’t recognize me, Ahmed. I’m Ibrahim Hamid!” I was stunned by the horror of what I saw! The last time I saw him was seven months ago near the main market in El Fasher, in the city centre, at the bus stop. He was working as …

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