Sudan gets creative with waste at Khartoum's first recycling festival | Zeinab Mohammed Salih

From tyre chairs to newspaper art, people in Khartoum are finding innovative ways to attempt to tackle the country's rubbish problem

Wamda Yousef sits in front of the baskets and plates she's made out of newspaper.

"In the beginning, I thought it was difficult to learn, but gradually I learned to do all these artistic shapes only by [using] newspapers that were left by my aunt - she loves reading newspapers," Yousef says.