BIG REPORT – The heads of the regular army, foreign embassies and international organizations have found refuge in this port city located 800 kilometers from Khartoum, as have nearly 250,000 civilians displaced by the fighting.
Special Envoy to Port Sudan
Dilapidated and bleached by a blazing sun, the old colonial buildings of the market doze away from the modern buildings. A row of arches, topped with small wooden and sheet metal houses, stands, indifferent to the urban development that surrounds it. In the middle of the century-old fruit and vegetable stalls, Korean refrigerators and Indian tuk-tuk engines serve as a temporal marker for passers-by. Behind, towards the sea, the metal cranes of the dock, wide and motionless, ready to welcome bulk carriers and container ships, outline the port landscape.
Far from the front lines, located in an area controlled by the Sudanese army more than 800 kilometers from the capital, Khartoum, Port Sudan displays a flat indolence in the face of the war ravaging the country. The conflict between the regular army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) of General Hemedti has nevertheless placed the city at the center of the country, transforming the…
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