Success: Al-Hudood Identifies Last Sudanese to Die of Natural Causes

If you’re Sudanese, have visited Sudan, or merely passed through it en route to Libya, you might wonder: when was the last night a Sudanese person slept peacefully, or a Darfur girl made it 79 without hiding in a closet?

Archival research reveals that Abdul Rahim Delmanqani, who died in January 1956, lived a perfectly ordinary life. He ate when hungry, studied, graduated, worked, fell in love, married, went to the market under colonial rule, and felt guilty for sometimes overspending. Evenings were spent arguing with his wife over dinner or the monotony of routine; they lived together for 42 years without ever being ethnically displaced.

Abdul Rahim was the last Sudanese citizen to avoid witnessing civil wars, coups, Darfur massacres, starvation, rape, al-Bashir, endless transitional governments, Al-Burhan, Hemedti, and, most importantly, the long arm of either Qatar or the Emirates.