Six months ago today, Sudanese people woke up to the news that war had broken out in Khartoum, and it quickly spread like wildfire across the nation. The capital city of the country has been all but flattened, and the stories coming out of Darfur sound like genocide… 🧵 News organisations covered the conflict initially, but mostly through the lens of the evacuation of foreign citizens - once the westerners were out, the coverage all bht ground to a halt. Pitches I would send to big news desks would either be ignored or replied with (2/)