Fleeing mass killings to give birth: the story of a Sudanese mother welcoming a baby in Chad
On 30 May 2023, 40-year-old Raouda gave birth to her third child, a healthy baby boy called Abdelrahim Arba Zackaria. Only two weeks before the birth, she did not think she would see her child be born alive. “What if I went into labor in the bush with my [toddler] strapped to my back? How would I manage?”