On April 14, 2023, Yasmine* got off the plane and fell into her sister’s arms in Khartoum, the capital of Sudan.
The Sudanese human rights activist was five months pregnant and lived in a nearby country, but was happy to be home. She was looking forward to spending some quality time with her parents.
But the next day, his life and his country changed forever.
“I woke up to the sounds of very heavy artillery at around 5 or 6 in the morning, and it lasted until 7 or 8 in the morning,” Yasmine, 31, told Al Jazeera via voice messages from Khartoum, where she still lives.
“I remember running to turn on Al Jazeera. They were talking about a heavy conflict.”
The roar of fighter jets and the sound of gunfire that she, her brother, sister and 2-year-old niece heard in their top-floor apartment confirmed Yasmine’s worst nightmare. The civil war in Sudan had begun and Yasmine was torn between comforting her brothers and telling the world what was happening.
She remembers interrupting a phone interview with a BBC journalist when she heard an army jet flying overhead.
“I remember screaming really loudly in the interview when I saw the plane and we had to shut it down,” she said.
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