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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Noha Elhennawy

Dozens of pregnant women flee from Sudan's el-Fasher, risking their lives and babies

Sudan Women - (Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

A few weeks before the fall of her hometown to Sudan’s paramilitary group, Nadra Mohamed Ahmed, seven months pregnant at the time, trekked for nearly 40 kilometers (25 miles) across unsafe roads, along with her two children, until she found safe transportation to a shelter across the country.

“By the time I arrived here, I had lost a lot of blood," said Ahmed from her tent at the overcrowded displacement camp in the town of al-Dabbah in northern Sudan. "I was admitted to the ICU where I spent a few days and had a blood transfusion.”

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