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He suffered from headaches for the rest of his life. Returning now, he stopped at Pripyat, the nearby city for Chornobyl's workers, which has been abandoned since the accident. \\\"It's heartbreaking to see Pripyat now,\\\" he said. \\\"I remember those houses when they were full of life, and now everything is overgrown and in ruins. It was such a beautiful city.\\\" [Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Photo]"},{"image_url":"https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/AP26113372052186-1777188568.jpg","media_credit":"Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Photo","published_at":"2026-04-26T08:52:51","published_at_display":"26 Apr 2026, 08:52 GMT","title":"Stanislav Tolumnyi, 65, left, and Mykola Chudak, 66, walk with fellow workers who helped clean up contamination from the 1986 Chornobyl nuclear disaster, in the nearby abandoned town of Prypiat. [Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Photo]"},{"image_url":"https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/AP26113372102480-1777188703.jpg","media_credit":"Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Photo","published_at":"2026-04-26T08:52:51","published_at_display":"26 Apr 2026, 08:52 GMT","title":"Bumper cars sit idle at an overgrown amusement park in Pripyat, Ukraine, a town abandoned following the nearby 1986 Chornobyl nuclear disaster. [Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Photo]"},{"image_url":"https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/AP26113371740823-1777188459.jpg","media_credit":"Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Photo","published_at":"2026-04-26T08:52:51","published_at_display":"26 Apr 2026, 08:52 GMT","title":"Anatolii Prylipko, 66, first arrived nine days after the accident and drove a fire truck for a month, working two-hour shifts to limit his exposure. He initially was unaware of the risks but suffered a health crisis in 1990 and could not work for a year. Returning now for the first time since that deployment, he found the landscape disorienting, with villages erased and the reactor sealed under protective layers. \\\"Back then, the whole place was packed: machinery, helicopters, they were everywhere,\\\" he said. \\\"The road to Kyiv was so crowded you couldn't pass anyone.\\\" [Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Photo]"},{"image_url":"https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/AP26113371781094-1777188488.jpg","media_credit":"Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Photo","published_at":"2026-04-26T08:52:51","published_at_display":"26 Apr 2026, 08:52 GMT","title":"Volodymyr Vechirko, 62, one of the workers who helped decontaminate the area around the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant after the 1986 accident, rides in a bus with fellow workers for a visit to the region before the 40th anniversary of the disaster in Chornobyl, Ukraine. 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After being hospitalised for weeks this year, he recovered and said he hopes to see Ukraine push back the Russian invasion. \\\"The doctors didn't know what to do with me, but thank God I survived,\\\" he said. \\\"Now I just hope to live long enough to see the end of this war - long enough to see victory.\\\" [Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Photo]"},{"image_url":"https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/AP26113372020488-1777188699.jpg","media_credit":"Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Photo","published_at":"2026-04-26T08:52:51","published_at_display":"26 Apr 2026, 08:52 GMT","title":"Volodymyr Vechirko, 62, was sent to Chornobyl in summer 1986 to clear away topsoil, clean buildings and make the other still-functioning reactors on the site safe. He has been ill for much of his life, which he attributes to working at the disaster site, including chronic dizziness, weakness and frequent pain. Because of his poor health, he said, he lost touch with colleagues from that time. \\\"Being back here now, the emotions are overwhelming,\\\" he said. \\\"It's incredibly sad to compare what this place was to what it is now.\\\" [Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Photo]"},{"image_url":"https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/AP26113372138829-1777188617.jpg","media_credit":"Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Photo","published_at":"2026-04-26T08:52:51","published_at_display":"26 Apr 2026, 08:52 GMT","title":"In 1989, Anatolii Taranenko, 62, was a security officer, guarding facilities and abandoned homes. Deployments were short due to radiation, and orders were followed without question. He has returned several times since, despite the grief that accompanies each visit. \\\"Back then, that was just how it was: If you were needed, you went,\\\" he said. He said he is still being treated for health problems at a veterans' hospital in Poltava and does his best to stay fit. \\\"We are military people - once a soldier, always a soldier. That's how I live my life. You have to hold yourself together,\\\" he said. \\\"You can't just give up.\\\" [Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Photo]"},{"image_url":"https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/AP26113372130988-1777188593.jpg","media_credit":"Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Photo","published_at":"2026-04-26T08:52:51","published_at_display":"26 Apr 2026, 08:52 GMT","title":"Serhii Buriak, 60, served in a special Interior Ministry unit in 1988, patrolling Pripyat and nearby areas to guard against looting. His duties included securing abandoned buildings. He said his return visit reconnected him with the sense of duty he felt, while many liquidators still struggle for recognition. \\\"Returning here after 40 years is a massive adrenaline rush for me. It brings back so many memories of my youth and what life was like during those times,\\\" he said. \\\"It was important for me to come back to remember those years and to show my son where I fulfilled my duty to my country.\\\" [Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Photo]"},{"image_url":"https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/AP26113372131820-1777188707.jpg","media_credit":"Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Photo","published_at":"2026-04-26T08:52:51","published_at_display":"26 Apr 2026, 08:52 GMT","title":"Workers who were sent to clean up contamination from the 1986 Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant accident pass through a radiation inspection point at the plant in Chornobyl, Ukraine. 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In many ways, the independence of Ukraine was born on April 26, 1986, in Chornobyl. Without their heroism, an independent Ukraine might not even exist today.\\\" [Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Photo]"},{"image_url":"https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/AP26113371711382-1777189990.jpg","media_credit":"Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Photo","published_at":"2026-04-26T08:52:51","published_at_display":"26 Apr 2026, 08:52 GMT","title":"Workers who helped clean up contamination from the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant accident place flowers at a monument at the facility in Chornobyl. [Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Photo]"},{"image_url":"https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/AP26113372055170-1777188517.jpg","media_credit":"Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Photo","published_at":"2026-04-26T08:52:51","published_at_display":"26 Apr 2026, 08:52 GMT","title":"From May to September 1986, Oleksii Harbuz, 72, a medical officer and dentist, treated patients while his unit worked on decontamination. He also worked in Belarus, which put him close to the human costs of the disaster. Returning for the first time in decades, he recalled colleagues who have since died and the bonds formed among survivors. \\\"This 40th anniversary represents both a deep tragedy and a vital chance to reunite with my brothers-in-arms,\\\" he said. \\\"So many of our colleagues have passed away over the years, but those of us remaining hold on. Being back here for the first time in 40 years is overwhelming. I feel a deep sense of pain, and it brings tears to my eyes. 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[Hassan Ammar/AP Photo]"},{"image_url":"https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/AP26107282517631-1776576895.jpg","media_credit":"Bilal Hussein/AP Photo","published_at":"2026-04-19T10:11:31","published_at_display":"19 Apr 2026, 10:11 GMT","title":"Two girls chant slogans as one holds an image of the late Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in Dahiyeh. [Bilal Hussein/AP Photo]"},{"image_url":"https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/AP26107241055533-1776576889.jpg","media_credit":"Hassan Ammar/AP Photo","published_at":"2026-04-19T10:11:31","published_at_display":"19 Apr 2026, 10:11 GMT","title":"A Hezbollah health unit member, Ali Fahos, places portraits of his colleagues, killed during the previous war with Israel, next to a building destroyed in an Israeli air attack in Jebchit. [Hassan Ammar/AP Photo]"},{"image_url":"https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/AP26107524095978-1776576923.jpg","media_credit":"Hassan Ammar/AP Photo","published_at":"2026-04-19T10:11:31","published_at_display":"19 Apr 2026, 10:11 GMT","title":"Displaced residents drive back to their villages following a ceasefire, in Jiyeh, near Sidon. [Hassan Ammar/AP Photo]"},{"image_url":"https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/AP26107378017794-1776576911.jpg","media_credit":"Hassan Ammar/AP Photo","published_at":"2026-04-19T10:11:31","published_at_display":"19 Apr 2026, 10:11 GMT","title":"A woman enters her house, heavily damaged in an Israeli air raid in Kfar Roumman, southern Lebanon. [Hassan Ammar/AP Photo]"},{"image_url":"https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/AP26107609241430-1776576930.jpg","media_credit":"Hassan Ammar/AP Photo","published_at":"2026-04-19T10:11:31","published_at_display":"19 Apr 2026, 10:11 GMT","title":"An ambulance belonging to Hezbollah's health unit lies amid the rubble of a medical centre destroyed in an Israeli attack in Jebchit. [Hassan Ammar/AP Photo]"},{"image_url":"https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/AP26108500441019-1776576941.jpg","media_credit":"Bilal Hussein/AP Photo","published_at":"2026-04-19T10:11:31","published_at_display":"19 Apr 2026, 10:11 GMT","title":"Lebanese Rida Hijazi checks his house damaged in an Israeli air attack in the city of Tyre, southern Lebanon. [Bilal Hussein/AP Photo]"}],"sequence_kind":"gallery","source_name":"aljazeera_gallery","source_name_label":"Al Jazeera Gallery","source_type":"section","summary":"Families travel south to inspect destroyed homes, unsure whether to stay as concerns about renewed conflict increase.","title":"Photos: Displaced Lebanese families return home despite Israeli attacks","topic":"gallery","translation_language":"","url":"https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2026/4/19/displaced-lebanese-families-return-south-despite-risks-near-israeli-border","video_url":null},{"author":"Al Jazeera","downloadable_assets":[],"embed_url":null,"id":2074,"image_url":"https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/AFP__20260415__A7PD9KF__v1__HighRes__AfghanistanEconomyLabourGold-1776320308.jpg","item_type":"gallery","item_type_label":"Gallery","media_credit":"Al Jazeera","micro_label":"Photo gallery","micro_label_kind":"gallery","published_at":"2026-04-16T08:52:00","published_at_display":"16 Apr 2026, 08:52 GMT","sequence_badge_label":"Gallery","sequence_count":9,"sequence_count_label":"9 photos","sequence_frames":[{"image_url":"https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/AFP__20260415__A7PD9KF__v1__HighRes__AfghanistanEconomyLabourGold-1776320308.jpg","media_credit":"Wakil Kohsar/AFP","published_at":"2026-04-16T08:52:00","published_at_display":"16 Apr 2026, 08:52 GMT","title":"Afghan men carry sacks of excavated mountainside stones before emptying them onto a sieve in search of gold nuggets. [Wakil Kohsar/AFP]"},{"image_url":"https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/AFP__20260415__A7PE3ZR__v1__HighRes__AfghanistanEconomyLabourGold-1776320333.jpg","media_credit":"Wakil Kohsar/AFP","published_at":"2026-04-16T08:52:00","published_at_display":"16 Apr 2026, 08:52 GMT","title":"Men pour water over a sieve as they sift through mountainside stones. [Wakil Kohsar/AFP]"},{"image_url":"https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/AFP__20260415__A7PD6WE__v1__HighRes__AfghanistanEconomyLabourGold-1776320290.jpg","media_credit":"Wakil Kohsar/AFP","published_at":"2026-04-16T08:52:00","published_at_display":"16 Apr 2026, 08:52 GMT","title":"Men dig a mountainside and sieve stones in search of gold nuggets along the Kunar riverbed. [Wakil Kohsar/AFP]"},{"image_url":"https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/AFP__20260415__A7PE4G3__v1__HighRes__AfghanistanEconomyLabourGold-1776320715.jpg","media_credit":"Wakil Kohsar/AFP","published_at":"2026-04-16T08:52:00","published_at_display":"16 Apr 2026, 08:52 GMT","title":"A man digs a mountainside along the Kunar riverbed before sieving stones in search of gold nuggets in the Song area of Ghaziabad district, Kunar province. [Wakil Kohsar/AFP]"},{"image_url":"https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/AFP__20260415__A7PD2CX__v1__HighRes__AfghanistanEconomyLabourGold-1776320261.jpg","media_credit":"Wakil Kohsar/AFP","published_at":"2026-04-16T08:52:00","published_at_display":"16 Apr 2026, 08:52 GMT","title":"Najibullah Hanif, the province's information chief, says locals learned panning techniques from miners arriving from gold-rich provinces. [Wakil Kohsar/AFP]"},{"image_url":"https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/AFP__20260415__A7PD26A__v1__HighRes__AfghanistanEconomyLabourGold-1776320316.jpg","media_credit":"Wakil Kohsar/AFP","published_at":"2026-04-16T08:52:00","published_at_display":"16 Apr 2026, 08:52 GMT","title":"\\\"Some started to dig with machines, an excavator; some locals came and asked the Islamic Emirate (of Afghanistan) to stop them because it destroys the river and the mountains,\\\" said Hanif. [Wakil Kohsar/AFP]"},{"image_url":"https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/AFP__20260415__A7PD4TA__v1__HighRes__AfghanistanEconomyLabourGold-1776320269.jpg","media_credit":"Wakil Kohsar/AFP","published_at":"2026-04-16T08:52:00","published_at_display":"16 Apr 2026, 08:52 GMT","title":"Hanif estimates that thousands in Kunar now pan for gold using traditional methods sanctioned by authorities. [Wakil Kohsar/AFP]"},{"image_url":"https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/AFP__20260415__A7PD4ZQ__v1__HighRes__AfghanistanEconomyLabourGold-1776320276.jpg","media_credit":"Wakil Kohsar/AFP","published_at":"2026-04-16T08:52:00","published_at_display":"16 Apr 2026, 08:52 GMT","title":"Afghanistan's mineral wealth has increasingly attracted both domestic and international investors, with Taliban authorities actively promoting mining operations throughout the country. [Wakil Kohsar/AFP]"},{"image_url":"https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/AFP__20260415__A7PE3T3__v1__HighRes__AfghanistanEconomyLabourGold-1776320324.jpg","media_credit":"Wakil Kohsar/AFP","published_at":"2026-04-16T08:52:00","published_at_display":"16 Apr 2026, 08:52 GMT","title":"Afghan men use traditional gold-panning methods to sort gold nuggets extracted from mountainside stones along the Kunar riverbed. [Wakil Kohsar/AFP]"}],"sequence_kind":"gallery","source_name":"aljazeera_gallery","source_name_label":"Al Jazeera Gallery","source_type":"section","summary":"In rugged Hindu Kush mountains, Afghan men pan for gold dust, forging livelihoods amid scarce economic opportunities.","title":"Photos: Afghan villagers turn to gold-panning to sustain livelihoods","topic":"gallery","translation_language":"","url":"https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2026/4/16/afghan-villagers-turn-to-gold-panning-to-sustain-livelihoods","video_url":null},{"author":"Al Jazeera","downloadable_assets":[],"embed_url":null,"id":1842,"image_url":"https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/RS33562_untitled-5158-1776144406.jpg","item_type":"gallery","item_type_label":"Gallery","media_credit":"Al Jazeera","micro_label":"Photo gallery","micro_label_kind":"gallery","published_at":"2026-04-15T08:02:22","published_at_display":"15 Apr 2026, 08:02 GMT","sequence_badge_label":"Gallery","sequence_count":17,"sequence_count_label":"17 photos","sequence_frames":[{"image_url":"https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/RS33562_untitled-5158-1776144406.jpg","media_credit":"Enayatullah Azad/NRC","published_at":"2026-04-15T08:02:22","published_at_display":"15 Apr 2026, 08:02 GMT","title":"Sudanese families embark on arduous journeys across the Sudanese border into eastern Chad, travelling on foot for two weeks or more. They navigate checkpoints and traverse open terrain, with adults carrying children on their backs and bringing minimal possessions. Chad has become the primary host country in the region for Sudanese refugees, sheltering more than 1.3 million people (UNHCR, April 2026). Women and children comprise more than 90 percent of those who have arrived since April 2023. Wadi Fira, eastern Chad. [Enayatullah Azad/NRC]"},{"image_url":"https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/RS21414_20240420-232A4628-1776144315.jpg","media_credit":"Richard Ashton/NRC","published_at":"2026-04-15T08:02:22","published_at_display":"15 Apr 2026, 08:02 GMT","title":"Every day, trucks arrive at the transit centre in Renk, Upper Nile State, the primary entry point for most refugees crossing from Sudan into South Sudan. Since April 2023, more than one million people have sought refuge in South Sudan, fleeing the ongoing conflict in Sudan (UNHCR). The Renk transit centre, originally designed to accommodate just 4,000 individuals, reached a peak occupancy of more than 23,000 people. Renk transit centre, South Sudan. [Richard Ashton/NRC]"},{"image_url":"https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/RS28746_IMG_5006-1776144334.jpg","media_credit":"Ahmed Ahmed/NRC","published_at":"2026-04-15T08:02:22","published_at_display":"15 Apr 2026, 08:02 GMT","title":"Amona's 25-day journey from Khartoum to West Darfur came after a harrowing escape. \\\"We fled our homes with nothing,\\\" she says. \\\"Our houses were locked behind us, full of our belongings. We fled the shelling and gunfire, with bombs falling directly on our homes. One of them hit our neighbour's house while they were inside, and no one made it out alive.\\\" Now in West Darfur, Sudan, she must walk an hour each way to collect water in small jerrycans that provide just enough for basic cooking and drinking needs. Touloum refugee camp, eastern Chad. [Ahmed Ahmed/NRC]"},{"image_url":"https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/RS22860_20240424-232A7931-1776144327.jpg","media_credit":"Richard Ashton/NRC","published_at":"2026-04-15T08:02:22","published_at_display":"15 Apr 2026, 08:02 GMT","title":"Kuich, 45, originally from Malakal, was forced to flee Sudan with his five children after losing his wife in crossfire. Among the hundreds of thousands crossing into South Sudan, many are returnees - people coming back to a country they had previously fled, often landless and with family members lost or separated during their journey. For many, the transit centre in Renk has transformed from a temporary stop into a permanent home. Renk transit centre, South Sudan. [Richard Ashton/NRC]"},{"image_url":"https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/RS33561_untitled-5117-1776144391.jpg","media_credit":"Enayatullah Azad/NRC","published_at":"2026-04-15T08:02:22","published_at_display":"15 Apr 2026, 08:02 GMT","title":"Zaynab Ibrahim Hamed, formerly an Arabic teacher in Sudan, now resides alone in a modest shelter at Touloum refugee camp. The war killed her father and led to her brothers' disappearance. Her remaining family members are scattered - some in Chad, some in Sudan, while the whereabouts of others remain unknown. \\\"Life in Sudan was good,\\\" she says. \\\"We had a house, a car, jobs. But then the war came and life became a battle to survive.\\\" In eastern Chad's Touloum refugee camp, ninety percent of households headed by women have no source of income. Touloum refugee camp, eastern Chad. [Enayatullah Azad/NRC]"},{"image_url":"https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/RS33560__A2A4603-1776144377.jpg","media_credit":"Enayatullah Azad/NRC","published_at":"2026-04-15T08:02:22","published_at_display":"15 Apr 2026, 08:02 GMT","title":"Muktar Ahmed, forced from his home in el-Fasher, now finds refuge near the Chad-Sudan border, witnessing his children's education slip away. \\\"My children were going to school in Sudan, but it was destroyed,\\\" he explains. \\\"It is difficult to learn on an empty stomach.\\\" Throughout Sudan, Chad and South Sudan, merely 45 percent of displaced children receive consistent educational opportunities, while almost one in five has been completely cut off from learning. Chad-Sudan border area. [Enayatullah Azad/NRC]"},{"image_url":"https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/RS32620_DSC_0352-1776144351.jpg","media_credit":"Karl Schembri/NRC","published_at":"2026-04-15T08:02:22","published_at_display":"15 Apr 2026, 08:02 GMT","title":"Nafisa Taha Mohammed, 45, reached Thobo camp on January 27, 2026, having fled Kadugli on foot two days earlier with her husband and their 12-year-old son. The family was forced to sell their clothing to buy food during their initial days at the camp. \\\"We need everything here and we're barely getting anything,\\\" she says. Located in Sudan's Nuba Mountains region of South Kordofan, Thobo camp has become a refuge for families displaced by renewed military conflict in Kadugli that erupted in late 2025. Thobo camp, South Kordofan, Sudan. [Karl Schembri/NRC]"},{"image_url":"https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/RS34218_Enayatullah-Azad-_A2A4187-1776144448.jpg","media_credit":"Enayatullah Azad/NRC","published_at":"2026-04-15T08:02:22","published_at_display":"15 Apr 2026, 08:02 GMT","title":"Awatif Bahar Mohamed escaped el-Fasher following the murder of her husband and eldest son. On her journey to Chad, armed groups stripped her of all possessions. She reached Goudrane camp with just a single blanket to share among four people. Her surviving son had managed to earn modest income by assisting newcomers with shelter construction, but this work has since disappeared. \\\"We are hungry,\\\" she explains, \\\"but we are patient with the hunger. What is good is that there are no bombardments.\\\" Goudrane camp, eastern Chad. [Enayatullah Azad/NRC]"},{"image_url":"https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/RS32646_DSC_0598-1776144358.jpg","media_credit":"Karl Schembri/NRC","published_at":"2026-04-15T08:02:22","published_at_display":"15 Apr 2026, 08:02 GMT","title":"An elderly man departs from the distribution point at Umdulu camp, South Kordofan, carrying his food ration: White beans, sorghum, and salt. Since fighting intensified in late 2025, the camp has primarily received families escaping from Kadugli. Across the region, almost 75 percent of displaced households lack any form of income. Food distributions have become the sole barrier protecting many families from starvation. Umdulu Camp, South Kordofan, Sudan. [Karl Schembri/NRC]"},{"image_url":"https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/RS29866_20250702_130320905_iOS-1776144339.jpg","media_credit":"Mathilde Vu/NRC","published_at":"2026-04-15T08:02:22","published_at_display":"15 Apr 2026, 08:02 GMT","title":"Amina fled Khartoum with her four children after her husband vanished during the conflict's initial days. For two weeks, she journeyed on foot, concealing herself at checkpoints and traveling under cover of darkness until reaching the Nuba Mountains - a region already struggling to accommodate countless displaced families. By observing others, she constructed a shelter and sacrificed her own food portions to feed her children. When a modest cash transfer finally arrived months later, she invested in sorghum seeds for planting and several chickens. South Kordofan, Sudan. [Mathilde Vu/NRC]"},{"image_url":"https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/RS32615_DSC_0258-1776144345.jpg","media_credit":"Karl Schembri/NRC","published_at":"2026-04-15T08:02:22","published_at_display":"15 Apr 2026, 08:02 GMT","title":"Local responders, with NRC's support, provide porridge to children and sorghum with beans to adults at Thobo camp's reception area. Throughout Sudan and Chad, approximately one in three aid recipients continue to share their limited resources with others - whether neighbours, strangers, or anyone arriving with less (NRC survey, April 2026). For three years, this grassroots solidarity has served as the unseen foundation of humanitarian response. Thobo Camp, South Kordofan, Sudan. [Karl Schembri/NRC]"},{"image_url":"https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/RS34220_IMG_E0833-1776144455.jpg","media_credit":"Ahmed Elsir/NRC","published_at":"2026-04-15T08:02:22","published_at_display":"15 Apr 2026, 08:02 GMT","title":"Children gather at a water point in Goz al-Salam camp. The humanitarian crisis in Sudan has reached critical levels, with more than 80 percent of displaced families now skipping meals to survive. Alarmingly, 18 percent of households have been forced to send their children to work. Across the border in Chad, one in four women lacks access to any toilet or latrine facilities, subjecting them to harassment and violence during their extended journeys to find water. The trauma and hardships these children are experiencing will leave lasting impacts that will continue long after this conflict ends. Goz al-Salam camp, Kosti, White Nile State, Sudan. [Ahmed Elsir/NRC]"},{"image_url":"https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/RS33250_IMG_7808-1776144369.jpg","media_credit":"Elias Abu Ata/NRC","published_at":"2026-04-15T08:02:22","published_at_display":"15 Apr 2026, 08:02 GMT","title":"Om Bakheeta Siddiq welcomed displaced families into her home in Um Hani village for three years, providing them with beds, mattresses, food, and water until roads reopened and they could finally return home. \\\"When I see someone struggling, I give without expecting anything in return,\\\" she says. \\\"When these people came to us, they were already like family.\\\" After enduring four displacements, nearly two-thirds of people report being completely exhausted with no resources remaining. Um Hani village, Sudan. [Elias Abu Ata/NRC]"},{"image_url":"https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/RS33247_IMG_7926-1776144362.jpg","media_credit":"Elias Abu Ata/NRC","published_at":"2026-04-15T08:02:22","published_at_display":"15 Apr 2026, 08:02 GMT","title":"Thuraya Hamad al-Nil fled Khartoum to find refuge in Fangooga, where the local community embraced her, providing shelter and crucial support during her most difficult months. She participated in agricultural activities, acquiring new skills she intends to apply upon returning home. The community fostered inclusion by organizing shared iftars during Ramadan. \\\"These moments helped me feel included and reduced the sense of displacement,\\\" she says. Though the local community has been generous, external aid remains minimal in Fangooga, Sudan. [Elias Abu Ata/NRC]"},{"image_url":"https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/RS28582_IMG_2655-1776144330.jpeg","media_credit":"Marwan Mohammed/NRC","published_at":"2026-04-15T08:02:22","published_at_display":"15 Apr 2026, 08:02 GMT","title":"In Tawila, North Darfur, displaced residents with barely any resources are preparing meals for those in even more desperate circumstances. Camp committees composed of locals are carefully managing the limited water supplies available. No official infrastructure maintains this system - only individuals who have chosen not to turn a blind eye to others' suffering. According to NRC's survey, approximately one-third of aid recipients across Sudan and Chad continue sharing their provisions with others, despite their own dwindling supplies. Tawila, North Darfur, Sudan. [Marwan Mohammed/NRC]"},{"image_url":"https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/RS33568_untitled-5460-1776144419.jpg","media_credit":"Enayatullah Azad/NRC","published_at":"2026-04-15T08:02:22","published_at_display":"15 Apr 2026, 08:02 GMT","title":"Abulay Jerema Osman oversees a well situated at a 20-minute walk from Goudrane refugee camp, serving both livestock and displaced persons. \\\"Many refugees are coming from the camp to this well. Here they can take the water freely. We are happy the refugees can get safety here in Chad. They are our guests.\\\" However, he speaks candidly about the constraints: \\\"The international community needs to help Chad support the refugees. The situation for the refugees here is very tough.\\\" Outside Goudrane refugee camp, eastern Chad. [Enayatullah Azad/NRC]"},{"image_url":"https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/RS22838_20240422-232A5041-1776144322.jpg","media_credit":"Richard Ashton/NRC","published_at":"2026-04-15T08:02:22","published_at_display":"15 Apr 2026, 08:02 GMT","title":"A man passes a makeshift stall offering toothbrushes, a tin of juice, and small food packets at Renk transit centre. With virtually no formal employment available, many displaced individuals in Renk must resort to selling whatever items they can to survive. South Sudan has absorbed more than one million people fleeing Sudan's war (UNHCR), creating an overwhelming burden on a nation already struggling with its own severe humanitarian crisis. Nearly 75 percent of displaced households in the region have no source of income. Renk transit centre, South Sudan. [Richard Ashton/NRC]"}],"sequence_kind":"gallery","source_name":"aljazeera_gallery","source_name_label":"Al Jazeera Gallery","source_type":"section","summary":"More than nine million people remain displaced in Sudan, while nearly 29 million face acute hunger.","title":"Photos: Families across Sudan endure years of displacement, hunger, loss","topic":"gallery","translation_language":"","url":"https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2026/4/15/sudan-families-endure-years-of-displacement-hunger-and-unimaginable-loss","video_url":null},{"author":"Al Jazeera","downloadable_assets":[],"embed_url":null,"id":1697,"image_url":"https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/AFP__20260413__A7E49F6__v1__MidRes__ArgentinaMaradonaSoupKitchen-1776153112.jpg","item_type":"gallery","item_type_label":"Gallery","media_credit":"Al Jazeera","micro_label":"Photo gallery","micro_label_kind":"gallery","published_at":"2026-04-14T09:10:25","published_at_display":"14 Apr 2026, 09:10 GMT","sequence_badge_label":"Gallery","sequence_count":11,"sequence_count_label":"11 photos","sequence_frames":[{"image_url":"https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/AFP__20260413__A7E49F6__v1__MidRes__ArgentinaMaradonaSoupKitchen-1776153112.jpg","media_credit":"Tomas Cuesta/AFP","published_at":"2026-04-14T09:10:25","published_at_display":"14 Apr 2026, 09:10 GMT","title":"Alejandro, a volunteer, prepares meat for a stew for neighbours in need at the yard of the childhood home of the late football star Diego Maradona, now transformed into a soup kitchen. 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It is meant by God to be handwoven.\\\" [Toyin Adedokun/AFP]"},{"image_url":"https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/AFP__20260410__A6FJ6M9__v1__MidRes__NigeriaTextileCultureFashion-1775973246.jpg","media_credit":"Toyin Adedokun/AFP","published_at":"2026-04-12T20:49:56","published_at_display":"12 Apr 2026, 20:49 GMT","title":"Adhering to traditional weaving techniques causes physical strain and health risks from prolonged sitting, but weavers insist this painstaking process defines the fabric's authenticity. 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