People arriving in neighbouring South Sudan said they had walked for several days on foot with little food, slept on bare ground, and traded their possessions for a ride out of the warzone 🔎 Big Read by mollyblackall
“People come with nothing in their hands. They have no money, no food. You see people walking with just a bedsheet. Sometimes it gets congested. It’s our duty to try and transport them on so they can be fed.”
“We saw dead bodies on the way out of Khartoum. Every night we slept on the ground, just under the sky,” she said. “We didn’t have anything to sleep in, not even a tent. We were so afraid, we could hear the sounds of the war. We had almost no food. We survived just off water.” Others used donkeys to carry them and the few possessions they had managed to bring over the border. One mother said that she and her young children took a packed bus from Khartoum for several hours, before getting a cart with a donkey to take them to the South Sudanese border town of Renk.
“Some of the Sudanese youth fleeing explained that they feel intimidated [along the journey],” he said. “One youth we met in Renk said he was called a coward and mocked for not being brave enough to fight those destroying the country.
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