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A mother's diary: She and her son fled the fighting in Sudan's capital Khartoum
![Buses are parked along a deserted street as people flee the southern part of Khartoum on April 27, 2023 amid street battles between the army and paramilitaries continue. - The Sudanese army pounded paramilitaries in the capital Khartoum with air strikes while deadly fighting flared in Darfur as the clock ticked down on a fragile US-brokered ceasefire now in its final full day.](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/726bf1c/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2906x2180+0+0/resize/880x660!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.npr.org%2Fassets%2Fimg%2F2023%2F04%2F27%2Fgettyimages-1252227238-296db138f873a26c0ca76691e96771ed3e3af5ca.jpg)
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