Sudan: ‘Life Won’t Stop’… Picture of Omdurman Bridegroom Puts Sudanese Photographer in Running for World Press Photo 2025 Award

28th March 2025
[Dabanga] Amsterdam / Omdurman -- A picture by Sudanese photographer Mosab Abushama, taken using just a mobile phone, has been selected as one of the regional winners for African of the prestigious World Press Photo (WPP) Contest, which recognises and celebrates the best photojournalism and documentary photography of the previous year. The picture, entitled Life Won't Stop, shows a bridegroom at his wedding in Omdurman in January, and illustrates how life in Sudan goes on, "despite the clashes and random shelling in the city".

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