Seven months after Sudan’s partial currency change, citizens still don’t have banknotes for their daily transactions, and are increasingly turning to digital transactions and electronic banking to manage everyday expenses.
Built in 1905 to become Sudan’s most important Red Sea port, the city has been struggling to accommodate the influx of refugees and is now at risk of being plunged into Sudan’s ongoing war.
Between the hardships of fleeing their country and new social fabrics with the absence of grandmothers and husbands, doors are opening for mothers to decide against the genital cutting of their daughters.
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