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Two friends, one war and the RSF’s reign of terror in Khartoum

Two childhood friends have experienced confinement and injustice at one of Sudan’s conflicting sides in Shambat al-Aradi, a tightly knit neighborhood in Khartoum North that was once known for its vibrant community gatherings and spirited music festivals.

Khalid al-Sadiq, a 43-year-old family doctor, and one of his best friends, a 40-year-old musician who once lit up the stage of the nearby Khedr Bashir Theatre, were inseparable before the war.

Both men, who were both born and raised close to that beloved theater, were swept into a campaign of arbitrary arrests carried out by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) when the civil war broke out in their city in April 2023.

Although the friends’ experiences were different and different, they remained akin to one another until they emerged physically altered, emotionally broken, and compelled to survive forever.

Imprisonment and ransom

Al-Sadiq’s ordeal began in August of 2023 when RSF forces arbitrarily detained Shambat and numerous other men.

He spent days incarcerated in a bathroom in a house where the RSF had looted it along with seven other people.

“We were only let out to eat, then forced back in”, he explained.

The RSF repeatedly tortured al-Sadiq during his first days of interrogation before demanding a ransom.

Using pliers, they used to repeatedly smash his fingers. At one point, to scare him, they fired at the ground near him, sending shrapnel flying into his abdomen and causing heavy bleeding.

The men’s captors gathered them after three days.

According to al-Sadiq, “They tried to bargain with us, demanding 3 million Sudanese pounds [roughly $1, 000] per person.”

Three men were released after handing over everything they had, including a rickshaw and all their cash. Al-Sadiq and the other prisoners who were still in prison were moved to a smaller cell with a more cramped toilet hidden beneath a staircase.

“There wasn’t any ventilation. There were insects everywhere”, he said. They had to alternate sleeping positions; one could almost lie down while the other could stand.

Al-Sadiq’s friend, the musician, who requested anonymity, was also detained and detained at Khartoum North, where the RSF had earlier taken control of the conflict with Sudan’s military, in the first few months of the conflict.

That would not be the only time the musician was taken because the RSF had been told that his family were distantly related to former President Omar al-Bashir.

Because of that connection, even though I was never a member of the regime, they called me a “remainder of the regime.” He claimed that he had protested against al-Bashir and that he had opposed it.

Sudan’s army chief, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, in green fatigues, arrives in the capital on March 26, 2025, the day he declared, ‘ Khartoum is free, ‘ after the military recaptured it from the RSF]Handout/Sudan Sovereign Council via Reuters]

Months later, the RSF raided his family’s Shambat home, and his younger brother was fatally shot. The musician quickly evacuated his family to Umm al-Qura in Gezira state to keep everyone safe, before returning home to collect their belongings. That was when he was arrested.

He claimed to Al Jazeera that the RSF fighters would entrap him and other prisoners and place them face-down in the yard during his time there. Then they would use a “sout al-anag,” a traditional hippo skin-based Sudanese leather whip to defeat them.

The flogging lasted a long time, he added, and it was not an isolated incident. He experienced it a number of times.

RSF agents subjected him to verbal and physical abuse and fabricated information about his alleged affiliation with al-Bashir during interrogations, labeling him as a political Islamist remnant of al-Bashir’s regime, and using slurs like “Koz.”

He was held for about a month, then released to return to a home that had been looted.

At least five more arrests would be made for him.

According to al-Sadiq, “the majority of the detentions were based on people telling each other things, sometimes for personal gain, sometimes for torture.”

“RSF commanders even brag about having a list of Bashir regime or SAF]Sudan armed forces] supporters for every area”.

forced labor

The musician claimed to Al Jazeera that he and others were forced to perform manual labor in a way that the fighters did not want to do while he was being held by the RSF.

“They used to take us out in the morning to dig graves”, he said. “I buried more than 30 graves myself.”

The prisoners who had been tortured, ill, or starved appeared to be the victims of the detention camps’ graves.

While he could not estimate how many people were buried in those pits, he described the site where he was forced to dig, saying it already had many pits that had been used before.

Al-Sadiq was transported to an RSF detention facility in the al-Riyadh neighborhood while being blindfolded, bound, and bundled into a van.

A section for women, an area for those who had been captured in battle, another for those who had surrendered, and an underground chamber known as “Guantanamo,” which is the site of systematic torture, were the five zones in the compound.

Al-Sadiq tried to help the people he was imprisoned with, treating them with whatever they could scavenge and appealing to the RSF to take the dangerously sick prisoners to a hospital.

epa12047298 Sudanese people, who fled from the internally displaced persons (IDP) Zamzam camp, on their way to the Tawila Camps amid the ongoing conflict between Sudan's army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), in North Darfur, Sudan, 14 April 2025 (issued 22 April 2025). The RSF claimed control of the Zamzam camp after its assault in April 2025. According to the UNHCR, over four million people have fled Sudan to neighboring countries since the outbreak of the armed conflict in April 2023. EPA/MARWAN MOHAMED
[Marwan Mohamed/EPA] [Differently living Sudanese who fled the Zamzam camp after the RSF attacked it travel to the Tawila camps in North Darfur on April 14, 2025.

However, the RSF typically rejected the pleas, and al-Sadiq can still recall one patient, Saber, who the fighters shackled despite their quick deterioration of his health.

“I kept asking that he be transferred to a hospital”, al-Sadiq said. He “died.”

However, some of the prisoners who were being treated did not, and the RSF kept a group of doctors in a separate room with beds and medical equipment.

There, they were told to treat injured RSF fighters or prisoners the RSF wanted to keep alive, either to keep torturing them for information or because they thought they could get big ransoms for them.

Al-Sadiq chose to stay with the other prisoners and cooperate less with the RSF, keeping to himself, and cooperating with them.

In the cell he chose to remain in, conditions were impolite.

“The total water we received daily – for drinking, ablution, everything – was six small cups”, al-Sadiq said, adding that food was scarce and “insects, rats and lice lived with us. I lost 77 pounds and 35 kg.

Although their captors did occasionally provide him with medical supplies when they needed them to treat someone, they provided a lifeline for everyone who came his way.

The prisoners were so desperate that he sometimes shared IV glucose drips he got from the RSF so detainees could drink them for some hydration.

The RSF would only provide small “payments” of sugar, milk, or dates to prisoners who were forced to perform manual labor, such as loading or unloading trucks, as the only other sources of food.

Al-Sadiq did not mention having heard of other prisoners digging graves or having been forced to do so.

For the musician, however, graves became a constant reality, even during the periods when he was able to go back home to Shambat.

He assisted in the interment of about 20 neighbors who had to be buried anywhere but in cemeteries after succumbing to starvation or crossfire.

Without explaining the reason, the RSF prevented people from visiting the cemeteries to rest their loved ones.

In fact at first, the RSF prohibited all burials, then relented and allowed some burials as long as they were not in the cemeteries.

In Shambat Stadium’s Rabta Field and close to the Khedr Bashir Theatre, the musician and others would dig graves for victims.

Sudanese army officers inspect a recently discovered weapons storage site belonging to the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in Khartoum, Sudan, Saturday, May 3, 2025. (AP Photo)
On May 3, 2025, a Sudanese army officer inspects a recently discovered weapons storage facility at Khartoum. [AP Photo]

He said many people who were afraid to leave their homes at all ended up burying their loved ones in their yards or in any nearby plots they could furtively access.

Al-Sadiq was released in the winter, but the friends’ ordeals continued until the RSF stopped intervening to arrest the musician.

Why doesn’t anyone understand why.

Both al-Sadiq and the musician told Al Jazeera they remain haunted by what they endured.

They claimed that their suffering did not end with their release; rather, it persisted, eroding from their minds, a fear that their fate will be forever.

The SAF announced Khartoum’s recapture on March 26. Now, the two men have returned to their neighbourhood, where they feel a greater sense of safety.

Portugal to Premier League – how will Gyokeres fare?

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Rio Ferdinand refers to Viktor Gyokeres as “I don’t think he’s the guy.”

“I’ve watched him probably three times really, really closely. And three times, I’ve said, “He ain’t getting that opportunity in the Prem. “

Gyokeres, 27, has just moved from Sporting to Arsenal for up to £64 million.

Gyokeres has scored a phenomenal 97 goals in 102 appearances for the Portuguese club, and contributed 26 assists.

Last year, he averaged 54 goals per game, which is more than that.

Ferdinand, however, claimed he was unsure whether Gyokeres would make a good team in England’s top flight when he was being linked with Manchester United.

The six-time Premier League winner, speaking on his Rio Ferdinand Presents podcast, asked: “Is there enough – after he’s physically matched – to get him a goal”?

However, former Gyokeres assistant coach and fellow Swede Bjorn Hamberg, tells BBC Sport, “He has got the physicality for sure.”

After a successful two seasons with Sporting, where he played for Manchester United under Ruben Amorim, the former Brighton player made a number of top clubs linked with Arsenal.

In addition to his 39 goals in Portugal’s Primeira Liga in 2024-25, Gyokeres helped himself to another six in the Champions League – including a hat-trick against Manchester City.

Through loan spells at Swansea and Coventry, as well as St Pauli, he has gone from leaving Brighton without playing a single minute of Premier League football to becoming one of Europe’s most prolific marksmen.

A graph illustrating the impact Sporting Lisbon forward Viktor Gyokeres has had in 2024-25@OptaAnalyst

Do Portuguese league players typically win in England?

Cristiano Ronaldo, who also came from Sporting, is without a doubt the most successful import from the Primeira Liga.

The 18-year-old, then a winger, joined Manchester United for £12.24m in August 2003.

In 292 games for United, he scored 118 goals, with 103 of those goals coming from the Premier League.

Before moving to Real Madrid for a record-breaking $80 million, he won three Premier League titles, the Champions League, and a Ballon d’Or.

The next most prolific player to make the move from Portugal to England was also a Sporting to United signing – Bruno Fernandes.

Following his January 2020 move for a fee of £47 million, which increased to £67.7 million, the now United captain has scored 62 goals in 195 Premier League games, totaling 98 goals in 290 games.

Nani also signed for Sporting to United in 2007 and scored 25 goals in England between those two.

Looking at out-and-out strikers, Mexico forward Raul Jimenez has scored 59 Premier League goals for Wolves and Fulham.

After a successful loan spell on-loan, he made his Wolves debut for a club-record sum of $ 30 million in 2019.

However, there is a Mario Jardel for every Ronaldo. The Brazilian won the Golden Boot five times in Portugal and netted 179 goals in 176 games in the country’s top flight.

His goals-per-game ratio is unmatched anywhere in the world. When Bolton signed him in August 2003, manager Sam Allardyce said, “We have found a striker who is going to score goals for us on a regular basis.”

Aged 29, he only made seven substitute appearances in the Premier League, with his only three goals for the club coming in the League Cup.

He would later be referred to as the worst player Allardyce has ever managed.

There were three in between, with Jardel and Gyokeres being the first Portuguese league top scorer to join the Premier League.

Benni McCarthy top scored with Porto in 2003-04 and two years later joined Blackburn Rovers.

He only managed two goals in his first season with Rovers, one more than Didier Drogba, who won the Golden Boot.

In 109 games for Blackburn, he would score 37 league goals, including 11 for West Ham.

Carlos Vinicius and Darwin Nunez are the other players to win recent Portuguese Golden Boots – both with Benfica – before less-than-prolific spells in England.

Vinicius has eight goals in 53 Premier League games, scoring both on loan at Tottenham and Fulham before making a permanent move to Fulham in 2022.

Will Gyokeres flourish in a tougher league?

The usual suspects are on display in Europe’s top leagues in 2024 and beyond when you look at the list.

Robert Lewandowski finished with 27 goals for Barcelona in the title-winning season, one more than England captain Harry Kane’s total for Bayern Munich, while Kylian Mbappe managed 31 in his debut season in La Liga. Mohamed Salah scored 29 as Liverpool won the title.

Gyokeres, who is 6ft 2in, managed 39, though the Primeira Liga is not considered one of the top five leagues in Europe.

Is it important for him to succeed in a stronger league? Ferdinand’s comments come as a result of Ferdinand’s comments, as he has just turned 27 and is yet to play in any of Europe’s top five divisions.

It is perhaps worth noting 35% of his goals in 2024-25 came from penalties, as he successfully converted all 19 of his spot-kicks.

Gyokeres is a prolific goalscorer, but will he be successful against elite-level defenses?

There will undoubtedly be competition between Arsenal’s front players, Hamberg asserts.

“I think he’s committed to let go again and obviously he understands that Arsenal will be another step up in the ladder.

You can see that he is probably more prepared than ever to take that challenge on in his final few seasons, especially in the Champions League.

He typically stays in shape and improves annually. He’s just one of those players who is good around the box, a good finisher, but he’s also quite strong in transition and in big spaces.

Gyokeres has previously resided in England.

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Gyokeres has previously played for a Premier League team.

Having failed to make the grade, Brighton allowed him to join Coventry for a small fee in July 2021 after an unspectacular return of three goals in 19 Championship appearances during a loan spell with the Sky Blues.

After scoring 38 times in 91 Coventry league games between the years 2021-22 and 2022-23, he transferred to Sporting for £20.5 million.

Gyokeres has risen new heights while playing in Lisbon, and he has also taken the international stage with Sweden’s exciting attacking line-up, along with Dejan Kulusevski from Tottenham and Newcastle’s Alexander Isak.

Gyokeres scored nine goals in six games for his country – including four in one match against Azerbaijan – in the 2024-25 Nations League.

His attention has been drawn to him not just for his accomplishments, though.

Gyokeres is renowned for his intelligent movement and fast, focused work, and admirable club reviews for his combination of physical strength, technical skill, and tactical awareness.

He is a creator as well as a goalscorer, with a lot of his chance creation coming from his love of running with the ball.

According to Hamberg, who was Graham Potter’s assistant at various clubs, including Brighton, “When we had him, we had Glenn Murray who had scored double figures the previous season,” and we signed Neal Maupay from Brentford.

The third or fourth choice was then Viktor, so to speak. He would still play games for us in the Carabao Cup.

We were pleased that he had a support role while he was still young and be ready for an opportunity, “in our opinion.”

However, when he has his mind on something, he typically goes all-in for that.

He “always believed that he would be a top player.”

Viktor Gyokeres celebrates scoring for Sporting LisbonImages courtesy of Getty

A young boy who cried when he lost is remembered by Gyokeres’ former team- and coach friends. They talk about a “stubborn kid” who was “wild, really aggressive” and would occasionally come to blows with team-mates.

There are tales of Gyokeres’ unyielding resolve, perseverance, and drive.

At his first senior club Brommapojkarna, David Eklund, academy scout, says Dejan Kulusevski was never a superstar. But he scored goals. That is it.

He was a very nice guy, despite having a strong mentality. He always worked hard and had the idea of being a top player, training every day. He wanted to disprove the law.

When Gyokeres was there, Dennis Lawrence, a member of Mark Robins’ backroom staff, said, “He has that ability to focus on and accomplish anything he wants.”

Hamberg, who was assistant manager when Gyokeres was at Brighton and remembers the young striker pushing for a loan move because he felt he was not getting enough minutes, adds:” What I like with him is that he’s quite stubborn.

His attitude is excellent, he said. He doesn’t just wait patiently for a moment. He really wants to grab it himself. He practices his acting, and all he needs is a dedicated person who can put a shift in. He can always rely on his work ethic when things go wrong.

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WAFCON 2024: ‘You Will Be Celebrated,’ Tinubu Assures Super Falcons

On their return from Morocco, where the team won the WAFCON title for the 10th consecutive year, President Bola Tinubu has assured them of a fitting celebration.

The Super Falcons defeated hosts Morocco 3-2 on Saturday to win the 2024 title at the Olympic Stadium in Rabat, making a stunning comeback from two goals down.

Nigeria responded with a strong second-half display despite Morocco’s early lead thanks to Ghizlane Chebbak, the tournament’s top scorer, in the 12th minute and doubled their lead when Sana Mssoudy found the back of the net in the 24th.

President Tinubu sat down with them and their officials to record a video call after being impressed by their performance.

“As a team, we are very proud of you, and the entire country is proud of you.” We are all very happy because of you.

You will be celebrated, and I congratulate all the team’s coaches, officials, and ministers.

Read more about the Super Falcons’ incredible comeback against Morocco to win the 10-team World Cup title.

For the country and the continent as a whole, it is not a small feat to set the record for victories for the tenth time. Enjoy yourself and avoid injuries on your way home, according to Tinubu.

Rasheedat Ajibade, the tournament’s Most Valuable Player, was honored by the President and won the Woman of the Tournament award.

He also praised Esther Okoronkwo’s composure at a crucial moment in the final, describing her 64th-minute penalty kick as “very courageous.”

Jennifer Echegini converted the decisive free-kick to seal Nigeria’s 3-2 victory.

The President recited the words “Safe journey home, enjoy yourselves, avoid injuries, God bless you” to the cheery players and officials, who repeatedly recited “Thank you, Mr. President”!

Ajibade thanked the President for approving the full payment of the players’ allowances while speaking on behalf of the team. She assured him that the Abuja team was ready to give the WAFCON trophy.

‘Finish on a high’ – Russell seeks 3-0 Lions clean sweep

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In the corridor outside the dressing rooms in the basement of the Melbourne Cricket Ground, Finn Russell appeared through one door and his opposite number, Tom Lynagh, appeared through another.

Thirty minutes after the British and Irish Lions had completed a thrilling 29-26 win over Australia in the second Test – clinching the series – the fly-halves swapped jerseys and had a chat. Russell pulled the gold over his head and, let’s just say, it was a tight fit. “Jeez,” he said to Lynagh, “what size is this?!”

Both players laughed but Russell laughed longest. If the earlier games on this tour showed his brilliance in attack and defence, in bossing a backline and getting it moving forward through simple things done well and complicated things made look easy, Saturday night was more of a grind.

The Wallabies reborn, the stadium bouncing, the tourists on the back foot, the threat of defeat ever-present, Russell mixed great with good with not so good. His goalkicking was off. Nothing was straightforward at the MCG.

“Surely you guys know me enough now that if I miss a conversion, it’s not going to be the end of the world,” smiled Russell when talking about some of the things that didn’t go right for him.

Cometh the moment, cometh the man. Two minutes left and a two-point deficit, the Scot was marching his team downfield. With a minute and a half to go, his control was complete, his nerve unwavering. He ran diagonally, left to right, drew in Joseph Suaalii, fended him with his left hand before popping a pass over the head of Tom Wright to Blair Kinghorn with his right.

Two Wallabies eliminated. Amid the maelstrom Russell kept directing the traffic around him until Hugo Keenan scored a famous try to win it. How did Russell feel in those breathless moments?

“Pretty chilled, pretty calm,” he said. “We had a lot of momentum, we were on top of them at the end of it. We had them on the ropes when Blair broke through.

“There was no stress. The whole team was amazing. Jac Morgan’s cleanout that obviously created the try, it was just sticking to what we were doing, just playing rugby.”

Russell cut a curious figure in the bowels of the MCG. Smiling broadly in his ill-fitting Lynagh jersey, he had a garland of chocolate bars strung around his neck.

“Sione [Tuipulotu] gave it to me,” he said. It’s called a lei or a kahoa in Polynesian culture, a sign of honour and friendship which, Russell revealed, his daughter was taking a particular interest in.

“It’s from Sione. His family brought it from Tonga. There are a few boys inside [in the dressing room] that have the chocolate around their necks. I don’t fully understand it, to be honest. I’m obviously not from the islands, but I’m enjoying it.”

Did he know that theirs was the biggest comeback – from 23-5 down to winning 29-26 – in Lions history? He did not. Did he know that this was his 15th consecutive victory this season? He didn’t know that either. His previous best was seven for Glasgow and Scotland – and that was a decade ago.

“Everyone here has been gunning for this for their whole career,” he said. “To get to the Lions is one thing and then to get a series win is another. This is my third tour and I’d not won one, so it’s so special to get this, bringing four nations together to be a family for five, six weeks.

“But it’s not job done yet. We need to go and try and finish it off next week. Even though we’ve got the series, we need to go and finish on a high.”

Playing the most rounded rugby of his career, Russell has is having the season of his life. The sparks of genius will always be a thrilling part of who he is as a player, but his game management is world class as well. His defence, his mental strength – he’s the complete 10. Folk in Scotland have known this for years. Now everybody else must know it, too.

The weary old cliche of the ‘maverick’ is surely dead and buried to all. He’s won a Premiership title and a European Challenge Cup with Bath – and now a Lions series. He is one of his generation’s pre-eminent fly-halves.

Saturday was his biggest high and as he celebrated it was hard not to cast the mind back to more troubling times. His initial fallout with Gregor Townsend and Scotland in the spring of 2020. His words revealed how angst-ridden he was. It was not a happy time. He went into exile.

The second wave of that rancour was in 2022 when Townsend didn’t pick him for Scotland’s squad for the autumn, instead going with Adam Hastings, Blair Kinghorn (in what was called the Blair Switch Project from playing full-back to playing 10) and the young Glasgow player Ross Thompson.

Thompson picked ahead of Russell? It caused a sensation. The feeling back then was that the Russell and Townsend relationship had run its course and that he might never play Test rugby again, might never fulfil all the things he wanted to fulfil. It was a fleeting thought, but it was real at the time. Mercifully, the pair patched things up and grew close again. From there to here has been one giant leap for Finnkind.

Russell calls his Lions experience a “mad journey” that began when he became part of the so-called Geography Six, parachuted into New Zealand as midweek fodder in 2017. Four years later, he was injured in South Africa, his only Test action coming on the last day, when he made a big impression in a losing cause.

“You’ve got to appreciate every part of it. You can’t look back and think, had I not been injured in South Africa, had I been called out before in New Zealand, you can’t look like that. You’ve got to look at the positives.

“It’s always a privilege getting called into the Lions, whether that’s later on in the tour or being there from the start.

“This year’s been very special. We’ve won a couple of titles with Bath – and I’ve not won much in my career. It’s hard to appreciate it just now, because you’re still in the moment, you’re still half an hour or an hour after the game, so you’re still riding on that wave.

“But when I get down time, and if I get any time away from the kids, I can reflect and it’ll make it even more special. It’s probably one of the best nights [of his life].”

There is only one more thing to achieve in Australia and that’s to leave with a 3-0 series win and a 9-0 tour. You have to go back to Argentina in 1927 to find the last time the Lions won every game in a multi-Test series.

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‘Not eating for days’: Gaza’s worsening starvation crisis

Aid workers and health personnel claim that the more than two million Palestinians in Gaza are at a tipping point and are causing more deaths.

Since March, both adults and Palestinian children have fallen victim to Israel’s blockade, which is typically the most vulnerable.

Nearly 100, 000 women and children in Gaza are “not eating for days,” according to the UN’s World Food Programme, and almost a third of the population is “not eating for days.” Many important treatments and medicines are out of stock, according to doctors.

The prevalence of malnutrition and disease is alarming, according to the World Health Organization, with many Gazans now starving.

‘I found the best lookalike for Fendi’s £340 knot bracelet and it’s only £55’

The perfect chic accessory, the £340 knot bracelet, can be found for just £55 that gives you the designer look for less.

Abbott Lyon’s knot bracelet has a Fendi-inspired look(Image: Abbott Lyon)

Fendi’s Filo Bracelet adds instant, elegant charm to any outfit, and a great accessory is the simplest way to elevate even the most basic outfit. However, its £340 price tag can make it a bit of a splurge, so we quickly settled on Abbott Lyon’s Knot Bangle instead.

The bangle is the best way to achieve a designer-inspired look for less, costing significantly less than £55. It has a narrow metal band that fits over your wrist for an instant outfit upgrade, similar to the Fendi one, and has a plain knotted design in the center.

READ MORE: My £45 two-tone watch resembles Zara Tindall’s £11.7k Rolex, which I purchased.

The initial necklace by Zara McDermott gives a sweet nod to a romance by Louis Tomlinson.

Abbott Lyon’s Knot Bangle is available in two distinct mixed metal color combinations, each with a distinct main metal shade and minor details. The silver bangle with gold on the knot gives you the Fendi’s look, but it’s currently out of stock, but we’ll see if it comes back soon.

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The gold version is currently sold out (Image: Abbott Lyon)

The silver version, however, is still very much affordable at the same price as the knot and features subtle rose gold details. The add-on is currently on sale for between £35 and £17.50, and you can personalize it by adding a second dainty chain bracelet to make a stack.

The Gold Love Knot Cuff from Emma Holland Jewellery, or Safana Jewellery’s Knot Bangle, which is currently 25% off, will cost you £65 and £41.25. Olivia Burton’s Lover’s Knot Gold Plated Bangle, priced at £70, is the ideal choice if you want a bracelet that fits perfectly around your wrist.

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The silver and rose gold version is still available(Image: Abbott Lyon)

The Knot Bangle is water, sweat, and heat resistant, along with a tarnish-proof finish, which prevents it from looking as good as new wherever you wear it, like all of Abbott Lyon’s other pieces of jewelry. It has a lovely weight that feels expensive but still comfortable and unobtrusive to wear thanks to its silver and 18k rose gold-plated brass.

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You can pair it with any other color of jewelry, whether you prefer to wear it alone for a cohesive look or you want to add rose gold accessories to draw attention to the bracelet’s details. It can also be worn as a statement piece for any occasion, whether it’s for a sophisticated dinner or for a work-out party.