Vienna-based animal welfare organization Four Paws sent a team to Sudan to rescue wild animals. The team took 15 lions and five hyenas from Khartoum to a wildlife refuge in Gezira.
Two-thirds of the shelter's 150 animals had died, due to disease, thirst and hunger. The animals were reunited with the animals at the end of the trip, some were released, others relocated to a national park near the Ethiopian border and the rest stayed in another national park.