Demining teams are painstakingly clearing explosive remnants from Khartoum after the Sudanese army retook the capital from the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) last spring, following nearly two years of devastating urban warfare. Workers have so far removed tens of thousands of items, including anti-personnel mines deliberately planted across a 4.5-square-kilometre zone, while families returning to their homes have discovered grenades and mortars inside their own living rooms. The UN warns that more than 1.8 million people have returned to the city, many entering areas still contaminated with unexploded ordnance, posing a severe ongoing risk to civilian lives.