After a tortuous wait, Azza is heading to the UK with her children, but without her husband.
For Azza, a British citizen, a door has been slammed shut.
"To our shock and dismay, we were told we could not travel," she writes, adding: "The British government's advice had been misleading, and we were left stranded in a dangerous situation with no clear guidance or support."Her husband Ahmed Abuelgasim, who is back in Khartoum, spoke to me from his car in al-Manshiya, a neighbourhood east of Khartoum International Airport.Ahmed grew up in west London.
They were not planning to move to the UK but, with Sudan's troubled recent history, thought it would be wise to have options. Ahmed says the official they spoke to said it would not be a problem - Azzas's details were in the system and the FCDO's crisis travel advice suggested that children under 18 might qualify.
It seems the couple missed a bit of different advice which appeared on the constantly changing Sudan page of the FCDO website earlier in the week.
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