Shaden Gardood | Facebook<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nGardood lived near the national television and radio building, which has been a battlefield from the first day of the war.<\/p>\n
The RSF was guarding the building and they came under constant shelling by fighter jets, with on-the-ground clashes between the two forces.<\/p>\n
One resident living in the same neighbourhood as Gardood said: “Last night, the clashes were violent and intense, which lasted for long hours with fighter jets hovering over all night last night.<\/p>\n
“But what I observed is that the clashes were a bit less immediately after Shaden was injured, then we continued to hear the sound from afar.”<\/p>\n
The resident said that Gardood later died of her wounds.<\/p>\n
Gardood is survived by her 15-year-old son, Hamoudy, and her mother and sister.<\/p>\n
The fighting between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the RSF has been taking place in Khartoum for almost four weeks.<\/p>\n
The conflict erupted in mid-April, when the RSF refused to be integrated into Sudan’s army under a planned transition to civilian rule.<\/p>\n
More than 600 civilians have died and more than 4,000 injured, closing down about 80% of the hospitals with severe food, water and electricity shortages.<\/p>\n
Gardood was originally from South Kordofan state, a war zone area since 2011, before she resided in Khartoum with her family.<\/p>\n
She sang for peace and security in her region and promoted the culture of her marginalised community, al-Bagara, in South Kordofan, playing the role of Hakama – traditional poets in western Sudan who encourage men to go for fighting – for peace.<\/p>\n
As well as being a singer, Gardood was a researcher in the al-Bagara Melodies and presented papers on the legacy of the Hakamas in the past and present.<\/p>\n
A number of public figures were killed in Khartoum in the past few weeks, among them Sudan’s first professional actress, Asia Abdelmajid, who died in crossfire at the age of 80.<\/p>\n
Former footballer Fozi el-Mardi, 72, was also killed only a few days after the death of his daughter who was killed in a crossfire in Omdurman.<\/p>\n
Four days after the start of the war, constant ceasefires were announced under the request of regional powers, but none were upheld.<\/p>\n
The clashes<\/a> have not stopped as the fighter jets continue hovering over the entire city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of Sudan’s most prominent singers, Shaden Gardood, has been killed in crossfire in the Sudanese city of…\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[742,2],"tags":[1665,1664,1663],"class_list":{"0":"post-7179","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-international","7":"category-news","8":"tag-khartoum","9":"tag-shaden-gardood","10":"tag-sudan"},"yoast_head":"\nFamous Sudanese Music Artiste Killed in Crossfire\u00a0 - Ebira Reporters<\/title>\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\t \n\t \n\t \n