For Awatif Ahmed Isshag, covering Darfur is the story of her life.

Isshag complained that despite international attention, the suffering of Darfur remained vastly underreported inside Sudan. There are no television stations in the area, and most newspapers operate under government control or are based hundreds of miles away in Khartoum.

Through articles, essays and poems, Isshag frequently blames the government for failing to protect the citizens of Darfur.