From the archives: This story was last updated in January 2020.
When Osman Salih, a self-described Sudanese “IT professional, entrepreneur, traveler, athlete and family man,” began posting pictures and videos on social media of emaciated, starving African lions held in Al-Qureshi Park in Khartoum, Sudan, they attracted major media attention worldwide.Salih felt that the disease-ridden and malnourished condition the lions were in was morally unacceptable. He wrote in a Facebook post on Saturday, Jan. 18, 2020:
“After seeing the fires in Australia kill so many precious creatures recently seeing these animals caged and be treated this way made my blood boil.”
