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A high school building housing Kenyan teachers and 15 families began to shake as air raids and artillery pounded Sudan’s capital Khartoum.
The stranded group had begun to run out of food and water as fighting between Sudan’s army and its rival paramilitary Rapi犀利士 d Support Forces (RSF) intensified, but no help could reach them – so a network of Sudanese civilians, organising mainly through Twitter, sprang into action
” Jia El Hassan, who spearheads the network and uses an alias due to safety concerns, told Al Jazeera.
Finally, the network sent a group of men to check the perimeter of the building and help the trapped people flee on foot.
“They escaped on foot because we could not send any car – any car that went into that area was bombed,” El Hassan said.
The network – a reincarnation of an earlier one – started up on the first day of the conflict, April 15, with the setting up of vital updates on Twitter Spaces, the social media platform’s feature for live, audio conversations