Sudan: Inside the Kingdom of Beggars in Khartoum

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Posing as beggars, two journalists from the Khartoum Arabic Daily "Attayar" dropped into the growing world of beggars in this East African city.

Tasked by the paper's editorial board, journalists Abdallah al-Shareef and Ammar Hassan, put on dirty clothes and spent an entire week in the streets of down -town Khartoum and its twin city Khartoum North across the Blue Nile, watching the behavior of the begging community, to discover that it is indeed a well-organized business, with a striking chain of command.

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