LAST FLIGHT FROM NYALA

The war had changed Darfur forever.

What had once been a vast region of thriving towns, busy markets, humanitarian operations, and remote airstrips had become a landscape of smoke, silence, and uncertainty. Roads disappeared behind front lines. Communications failed without warning. Entire communities vanished overnight as millions of civilians fled violence in search of safety.

Now even the skies had become dangerous. Air traffic control systems had collapsed. Airports had been abandoned or captured. Navigation aids no longer worked reliably. Fuel supplies disappeared. Intelligence reports contradicted one another. Every flight became a calculated gamble between duty and survival.