A sign in Arabic outside a Khartoum home says 'Dear candidate, don't bother knocking. This family is boycotting the electionsKhartoum, Sudan - For Eiman al-Khidr, the decision to boycott the country's elections was very personal.
She recounts how her cousin and sister were shot dead during the September 2013 protests that claimed over 100 lives in the streets of Khartoum.
Her 15-year-old cousin Sohaib was getting sweets from a nearby shop when he heard gun shots and started to run away with his friends. As he was running, the police shot him in the back and he died on the spot.
"Sohaib was not an activist. He was just buying sweets with his friends," al-Khidr says.
At his funeral, in the north of Khartoum, the whole family gathered, upset and in shock. A large crowd formed outside the house of the deceased.
Al-Khidr says there was heavy police presence, because protests were ongoing in nearby areas.
Her voice starts to tremble as she recalls how one plain-clothed policeman started shooting at the crowd, and how her sister Sara, 29, was shot as she was trying to escape the gun shots.
"We are not a political active family. We were not even at the protests. We were at the wrong place at the wrong time like many Sudanese. No one deserves to be killed like this."