Sudan: Women Deliver Babies On the Road and Under Fire As Catastrophe Grips Sudan’s Aj Jazirah State

Aj Jazirah State, Sudan — This was Amina’s fifth delivery by Caesarean section, but the first performed on the floor of a stranger’s home. “I had to start walking again just six hours later, carrying my baby while my wounds were still fresh and painful,” she told UNFPA, the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency.

At nine months pregnant, the 27-year-old mother of five had fled her home in Aj Jazirah State as violence erupted around her. She made it on foot to a neighbouring…