People were running for their lives having left everything behind, according to Concern’s country director in Sudan
amid an apparent power struggle between the two main factions of the military regime.
The power struggle has its roots in the years before a 2019 uprising that ousted the dictatorial ruler Omar al-When an effort to move to a democratic civilian-led Government faltered after Bashir’s fall, an eventual showdown was inevitable. Concern has now suspended operations in the region, which was going to make people’s lives even more difficult, but aid organisations simply could not operate in such a hostile and dangerous situation, he said. The hostilities needed to stop so aid organisations could resume their support for millions of people.
In Mullingar, student Noon Abdellatif last heard from her mother Hannah and her five-year-old sister on Monday when they reached the border having left Khartoum by bus on Saturday with members of their extended family. Ms Abdellatif said the Irish Government did not move quickly enough and should have given people more notice of evacuation efforts. If her mother had known of the plan to evacuate Irish citizens from Khartoum it would have saved her the perilous bus journey and the expense.
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