Khartoum North

‘Spoiled insulin’: Sudan war disrupts drug supplies, fuelling smuggling

‘Spoiled insulin’: Sudan war disrupts drug supplies, fuelling smuggling As the conflict destroys local production, Sudanese patients are forced to rely on expensive, smuggled medicines. On a modest bed inside his war-battered home in the Khartoum North neighbourhood of the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, Murtada Mohieddin, a diabetic patient in his early 50s, carefully counts his remaining doses of insulin. His search for medicine has transformed into a harrowing battle – not just to find the...