Hard Borders and Little Aid - How Civilians Are Escaping Sudan's Conflict: EastAfrica Sudan
As the fighting between Sudan's warring generals enters a third week, vast numbers of civilians are escaping to neighbouring states, braving exhausting and dangerous journeys and in some cases being prevented from even crossing.
The lack of international aid in many places has also drawn criticism, even as locals try to fill the void. Aid groups are responding in Chad and South Sudan, though both countries have their own humanitarian problems and their resources are limited. Only a limited number of buses are allowed to cross into Egypt each day, which has meant thousands of people are backed up in Sudan without food, water, and shelter. Many have been waiting for days.
Sahar, a 30-year-old Sudanese woman who gave her first name only, said she had waited for 41 hours at Argeen with her four children. She said the youngest is 38 days old and doesn't have a passport. The 40-year-old woman - who travelled with her mother and three children - said she had been separated from her husband because of rules requiring men between the ages of 15 and 50 to obtain a visa before entering.
At Wadi Karkar bus station in the Egyptian city of Aswan, four hours by car from the border, some Sudanese families were sitting in tents trying to contact relatives in Cairo. They said they needed money to continue their journeys. Jamal Abdullah Khamis Ishaq, a lawyer and rights activist from El Geneina in West Darfur state, said seven members of his family escaped to Chad on the first day of the conflict after militiamen, including men wearing RSF uniforms, burnt down his home.
"There are those who have already experienced violence, and those who tried to find their way before the situation becomes worse," Souabedet said."I think it is based on past experience - they know how this situation can be." World Food Programme officials have said funding needs to be provided as soon as possible, especially as Chad's wet season looms. Rain is expected to fall in aMore than 20,000 people have arrived in South Sudan so far, though that figure is a major underestimation, according to Charlotte Hallqvist, an external relations officer at UNHCR in South Sudan.
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