Nigerian law student Umar Yusuf Yaru was relaxing in his apartment when he first heard gunfire last month in his Khartoum neighbourhood.
For the next nine days, Yaru hunkered down alone as the Sudanese armed forces clashed with the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces , hoping the fighting would end.
Nigeria's government said it tried to hire 250 buses to evacuate some 5,500 of its citizens, most of them students. But it could only locate 40 - at a cost of $1.2 million. Nigeria's National Emergency Management Agency said Egypt was only allowing its nationals to enter if they had places on a flight out. A Nigerian air force plane and a charter flight evacuated the first 354 Nigerians from the Egyptian city of Aswan on Wednesday.
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