“How can a person leave his place so simply, and abandon the place in which he grew up and where the place has become a part of his personality?” - Faiz Abubakr, Sudanese photographer
MSF is sharing a selection of photographs taken by captured by award-winning Sudanese photographer Faiz Aboubakr.
Now residing in eastern Sudan, Aboubakr visited MSF projects in Al-Gedaref city—including emergency response such as the Cholera Treatment Centre—and the long-standing MSF project in Um Rakuba refugee camp, where we have been working since 2021 to respond to the needs of Tigrayan refugees.
One of the stories captured of a patient at one of our mobile clinics we ran for IDPs is that of Nisreen, who fled Khartoum with her children after being shot during the fighting:
“When the war broke out, I was shot. I fled to Sennar, then to Dinder and finally to Gedaref, where I’m staying in a school building. I don’t know which barrel the bullet came from. There are too many battles going on here. I just wanted my children to be well,” Nisreen shared with Faiz.