“THE SITUATION IS A CALAMITY”
Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said it had delivered some aid to the capital from Port Sudan, a road journey of about 800km.
Some 330,000 Sudanese have also been displaced inside Sudan’s borders by the war, the UN migration agency said.
“The situation is a calamity,” Hassan Mohamed Ali, a 55-year-old state employee, said during a stopover in Atbara, 350km northeast of Khartoum, en route to the Egyptian frontier.
“We suffer from power and water cuts, our children have stopped school. What’s happening in Khartoum is hell.”
Displaced Sudanese families have also made their way, sometimes on foot under scorching desert sun, hundreds of kilometres to Chad and South Sudan.
About 800,000 people could eventually leave, according to the UN.
More than 40,000 people have crossed the border into Egypt over the past two weeks but only after days of delays. Most migrants have had to pay hundreds of dollars to make the 1,000-km journey north from Khartoum.
It took Aisha Ibrahim Dawood and her relatives five days in a rented car to get from Khartoum to the northern town of Wadi Halfa, where the women and children crammed into a back of a truck that brought them to a queue at the Egyptian border.
“Our suffering is unprecedented,” she said.
Source: CNA
