TIME Features Photos from Sudan in TIME’s Top 100 Photos of 2024

TIME has selected the top 100 photos of 2024, including two photos from Sudan. One of a crowd cheering for the Sudanese military during a demonstration in Omdurman; another of Sudanese women and children registering as refugees in Chad.

‘Every year the TIME photo department sits down to curate the strongest images that crossed our path over the previous 12 months. And every year, sitting with the images, we find ourselves mulling the ways this collection feels heavier than the last, how the year produced images unlike what we’ve seen before,’ said the Senior Photo Editor of the TIME photo department, Kim Bubello.

In this photo by Ivor Prickett—The New York Times/Redux, the caption reads, ‘A crowd cheers members of the Sudanese military during a demonstration in Omdurman, outside Khartoum, on April 24. A feud between two generals fighting for power has dragged Sudan into civil war and turned Khartoum and its surroundings into a site of the world’s worst humanitarian catastrophe.’ 

In this photo by Nicolò Filippo Rosso, the caption reads, ‘Sudanese women and children register with Chadian authorities upon arrival as refugees in Adre, Chad, a border town in the Ouaddaï province on June 10.’

‘But this year something else, a tautness, runs through the collection – the tension of conflict, the anxiety over outcome, anticipation of excitement or in possibility. Somehow, these photographers are able to capture that coiled feeling and hold it within the four walls of a frame. Be it by impeccable timing or intentional framing, they have created a time capsule that feels as if it’s about to be opened,’ said Bubello.

Sudan has become the world’s worst humanitarian crisis as a result of fighting, which began on 15 April 2023, between the Sudanese Army Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). More than 150,000 have been killed. According to IOM, at least 9.9 million people have been internally displaced across all 18 states in Sudan. In total, some 12 million have been forced to flee their homes in Sudan, with more than 2 million crossing borders into neighbouring countries, principally to Chad, South Sudan and Egypt.   

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