Outside his bullet-riddled home, Sudanese Jamil Morjan stands with his hands raised in prayer for his mother's soul over a mound of earth. And in one neighbourhood in Khartoum's twin city of Omdurman, Al-Samani Mohammed Al-Samani, a volunteer gravedigger, prays for the dead at an old football field which has been turned into an improvised graveyard. Across greater Khartoum, the war, which erupted in April 2023 between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, has made it nearly impossible for families to bury their dead. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES