My family is trapped in a military coup in Sudan - every conversation begins: 'how many people have died today?
There was a lot of excitement within my family's household in Gorton because we were visiting Sudan for a family wedding. Then on the morning of the 15th of April, I received news I never expected. A civil war had broken out in my home country.
I still remember how the streets of Sudan felt when I visited a few months after the 2019 coup ended. The journey from the airport to my family's house in Omdurman was around 30 minutes as the airport was in Khartoum . It was strange, part of me was glad me and my mum were not trapped in Sudan however, the other part of me wants to be in Sudan so I'm in closer contact with my dad. The risk of danger doesn't really possess you when members of your family are in the middle of a civil conflict.
My eating and sleeping habits were thrown out the window for a while. Hunger is replaced by worry. I would put on alarms two hours after I went to sleep so I could check and reassure myself that my family was okay over there. My dad is the type of person to put someone else ahead of himself. Even though he was the one in danger, he would tell me to 'eat regularly and get enough rest'. It just shows the type of person he is.
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