Online calls grew Sunday to help save five "malnourished and sick" African lions held at a park in Sudan's capital, with some demanding the creatures be shifted to a better habitat.
The five lions are held in cages at Khartoum's Al-Qureshi Park in an upscale district of the capital, but for weeks now they have been suffering from shortages of food and medicine.
"I was shaken when I saw these lions at the park... their bones are protruding from the skin," wrote Osman Salih on
Facebook as he launched an online campaign under the slogan #Sudananimalrescue.