The bespectacled, grey-bearded man ran out of the primary school in Khartoums Amarat district, shaking with shock.
He, like thousands of others, had returned to check on buildings retaken by the army after two years of civil war, only to find a new threat lurking in the rubble of Sudans capital, in his case an unexploded shell under a pile of old cloth.
Im terrified. I dont know what to do, Abdelaziz Ali, 62, said outside the school where he used to work as an administrator before the conflict started in April 2023 and the Rapid Support Forces paramilitaries moved in.
Its around 40 cm long - looks like anti-armor. This is a childrens school.
Ammunition and missiles litter streets, homes, schools and shops across the city where families have started to return to the buildings that the RSF commandeered.
