A yellow and green dress: Abdulsalam recalled the colours his mother wore as they escaped the Janjaweed. Credit: ©Wiener Holocaust Library Collections/Courtesy of Waging Peace

Africa

From the May 2025 issue

The drawings that captured Sudan’s genocide

Children caught up in the atrocities in Darfur drew the horrors they witnessed. The pictures are now used as legal evidence—but what happened to their creators?

By Imaan Irfan

April 2, 2025

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Imaan Irfan is editorial assistant at Prospect

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