This archive report was first published on 10 July 2019.
On a morning in April, Al-Moez, a 45-year-old Sudanese man, was heading to work from his modest home in Al-Rimela, southern Khartoum. He was a colleague of a news channel based in Qatar and worked near a longstanding protest camp outside army headquarters in central Khartoum.
"The building was under surveillance by the all-powerful National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS)," Al-Moez's mother, Khadom, told AFP in an interview.
As Al-Moez arrived at work, a colleague started taking pictures from a window of their office. Suddenly, a bullet pierced the window and lodged itself in Al-Moez's heart, killing him instantly.
Al-Moez's family is one of dozens who have lost a loved one in Sudan's months-long turmoil. The family has called for an official investigation and for his killer to pay the "eye for an eye" penalty.
However, Khadom says there is little chance the case will come to trial or that the NISS will be found guilty.
Anti-regime protests, which first broke out on December 19 after the tripling of bread prices, have cost the lives of more than 200 demonstrators, according to doctors close to the protest movement.
On June 3, more than 100 lives were lost when gunmen in military uniform brutally dispersed the sit-in outside army headquarters that was in place since April 6.
Protest leaders had agreed on a transition period of three years and three months, with the first 21 months presided over by a military nominee, and the last 18 months by a civilian.
Despite the breakthrough, Yussef, a 35-year-old protest leader, said he would keep demonstrating because nothing significant would come from Sudan's military.
"We still have a long way to go for a new Sudan... We must keep up the fight for future generations," Yussef said, glancing over at his sister's boys Ahmed and Asir.
