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One person undoubtedly cheering on the troops is Abidin Durma, well-known as the gravedigger of Omdurman, a sister city to Khartoum over the River Nile that is part of the capital region.

I said good-bye to the widow’s unmarked stone, where she was buried after she died, and where I stayed until the gravediggers found me and carried me to the temple.

The gravediggers marking out the individual spaces where exhumed corpses will be buried.

"A gravedigger had to come over and use water from his lunch to clean the gravestone before we could rebury him."

Later, with help from a local gravedigger, she spent years cutting the grass, placing flowers on the graves and keeping the cemetery tidy.