“You cannot hide from a drone strike,” says Elsadig. For the 27-year-old, that is the terrifying reality of life in Sudan’s besieged city of El-Obeid, where even the simplest routines carry the threat of sudden death.
For much of Sudan’s civil war, which began more than three years ago, civilians feared the fighting on the ground. In El-Obeid, a strategic trade and aid hub that is home to more than half a million people, many now fear what comes from the sky.
In late June, Elsadig was sitting at a water truck station when a drone strike hit the area, severing his left leg.
Nearby, Ahmado, a 42-year-old sewage truck driver, was at work when the same attack struck a group of water trucks. His 9-year-old son, who had come to meet him after school, was killed, along with two of his colleagues.
“My day had started like any other day. There were drones flying over our heads, but I never imagined that my child or I would become a target,” Ahmado told CNN.
