Struggle to get out of Sudan
People wait for trucks as they flee the raging war between the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces and the Sudanese army in south Khartoum this week.Over the past week, the enormous task of bringing South Africans to safety as the fighting between the warring military groups rages on in Sudan has driven tempers and emotions past boiling point.
It took a complicated network of contacts, diplomacy, common sense and cool heads just to send the various groups via Port Sudan on a ship to Jeddah in Saudi Arabia, while two other groups departed by bus to Egypt.Get 14 days free to read all our investigative and in-depth journalism. Thereafter you will be billed R75 per month. You can cancel anytime and if you cancel within 14 days you won't be billed.
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