A worker shovels pebbles near heavily-damaged buildings in Khartoum on July 30.
Photographer: Ebrahim Hamid/AFP/Getty Images
Rebuilding Khartoum Will Cost Billions That Sudan Doesn’t Have
Nearly 2 million people are expected to return to Khartoum by year’s end. They’re finding looted homes, collapsed infrastructure and little aid
Last month, Suhair Salih canceled the lease on her small bakery in Cairo and boarded a southbound train for the Sudanese border — joining the flood of returnees to Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, even as a 30-month civil war continues to rage.
“After two years of suffering and displacement, I’m very happy to find my way back home,” Salih, 40, said from war-torn Khartoum. But she knows that her city has a long road ahead: “I found my house totally looted — life is very tough.”