At least 14,000 Sudanese have escaped to Egypt in the past week, braving dangerous roads and checkpoints, only to find themselves in another humanitarian crisis.
WADI KARKAR, Egypt — The Sudanese family hid under a bed as a rocket slammed into their roof — and again when militia soldiers stormed in and looted their house. They rationed water, held their noses to avoid the stench of abandoned corpses on their street and said their goodbyes, fearing they would not make it out alive.
“It was a disaster,” said the father, Khalid, 60, an engineer who fled without his phone or luggage and was one of many Sudanese civilians waiting at a bus stop in southern Egypt on Thursday. “So many people fainted.” Spokeswoman Christine Beshay of the U.N. refugee agency in Egypt said the organization was “supporting those in need with lifesaving relief items that will be delivered through the Egyptian Red Crescent teams at the borders.” A spokesman for Egypt’s Foreign Ministry did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the situation at the southern border.
When they finally reached the border, “there was no water, no food, nothing for the children,” she said. Her children feared urinating in public and had not relieved themselves for several days, and they had eaten nothing but chips, she said.Ali, 62, said one of his family members had fainted and been revived. The process at the border was “not efficient at all,” he said, describing the conditions as dehumanizing. “I saw people eat from the trash.
Those men and boys would have to turn around, passengers recalled border officials saying, and apply for entry permits in other towns — a journey that at wartime rates could cost hundreds if not thousands of dollars more.
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