Sudan’s war steals children’s future with school closures and displacement
- Nine-year-old Abkar Mohammed works cleaning and polishing shoes on the streets of Port Sudan every day.
- He arrived in the eastern Sudanese city with his mother and three siblings from Khartoum days after the country’s armed conflict erupted on April 15, 2023.
- Abkar lost his father before the war began and the family live in a rented a home in al-Kasara, a low-income neighbourhood in Port Sudan.
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- Nine-year-old Abkar Mohammed works cleaning and polishing shoes on the streets of Port Sudan every day.
- He arrived in the eastern Sudanese city with his mother and three siblings from Khartoum days after the country’s armed conflict erupted on April 15, 2023.
- Abkar lost his father before the war began and the family live in a rented a home in al-Kasara, a low-income neighbourhood in Port Sudan.
Sources: Al Jazeera