People fleeing fighting in Khartoum left waiting for days at sparsely staffed crossing after costly and dangerous journeys
Thousands of people have fled fierce street battles in central Khartoum for Sudan’s borders, waiting for days in the open air to enter Egypt or walking hundreds of miles to cross intoRana Ameen, a 23-year-old engineering student, said she and five members of her family had paid the equivalent of £475 per person to travel to the border crossing withTo reach the bus station on the outskirts of Omdurman, Khartoum’s twin city on the other bank of the Nile, the family were forced to make their...
A picture of Sudan’s rapidly developing humanitarian crisis began to emerge, one in which images of refugees holding Saudi Arabian flags after crossing the Red Sea to the port of Jeddah contrasted with stories of people waiting days to cross into Egypt. Terrified refugees found little welcome on the border with Egypt, where just a few local police officers had been dispatched to process thousands of exhausted people. “Thousands of people were there at the crossing, but very few border employees,” said Ameen.
Moneer Abdel Mohsen, a Sudanese citizen who fled across the Egyptian border and took a flight back to the United Arab Emirates after a trip to Sudan to see friends, said he waited a day and a half at the border crossing. Egypt was already home to an estimated 4 million Sudanese people, many of whom had relocated for study or work. Ties between Egypt’s military-led government and Gen Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, who leads the Sudanese armed forces as well as being the country’s de facto ruler, have become closer in parallel with abuses of Sudanese dissidents at the hands of Egyptian security forces, as well as forced deportations of some who fled Khartoum for Cairo.
Many of the most vulnerable were unable to move away from the border, Hallqvist said. “Our number one priority is to try to get people to travel inwards; there is nothing for them at the border. Services are limited; there are shortages of water. Even we were looking for water, and there was none to be found,” she said. “We had to bring some in via trucks, but it was a seven-hour drive.”
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