SaralnamaWarning: This piece contains details that some readers may find distressing Touma hasn't eaten in days. She sits silently, her eyes glassy as she stares aimlessly across the hospital ward. In her arms, motionless and severely malnourished, lies her three-year-old daughter, Masajed. Touma seems numb to the cries of the other young children around her. "I wish she would cry," the 25-year-old mother tells us, looking at her daughter. "She hasn't cried in days." Bashaer Hospital is one of the last functioning hospitals in Sudan's capital, Khartoum, devastated by the civil war which has been raging. Many have travelled hours to get here for specialist care. The malnutrition ward is filled with children who are too weak to fight disease, their mothers by their bedside, helpless. Cries here can't be soothed and each one cuts deep.… (Updated 16 Oct 2025, 09:13 IST; source: link)
Key Points
- Warning: This piece contains details that some readers may find distressing Touma hasn't eaten in days
- She sits silently, her eyes glassy as she stares aimlessly across the hospital ward
- In her arms, motionless and severely malnourished, lies her three-year-old daughter, Masajed