In the tight-knit neighborhood of Shambat al-Aradi in Khartoum North, two childhood friends, Khalid al-Sadiq, a 43-year-old family doctor, and a 40-year-old musician, were inseparable before the war. However, when the civil war broke out in April 2023, they were swept into a campaign of arbitrary arrests conducted by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). […]