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Asharq Al-Awsat
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Asharq Al-Awsat

Fear and Exhaustion: A family's Flight from Sudan to Egypt

Rawan al-Waleed, a Sudanese woman who’s fled after last crisis in the Capital of Sudan "Khartoum" carries her clothes at the balcony at her aunt's house in Cairo, Egypt April 24, 2023. REUTERS /Hanaa Habib

Rawan al-Waleed was expecting to fly from Khartoum to Cairo last week for a wedding. Instead, she ended up travelling from Sudan to Egypt in a bus her family chartered to escape a war.

The family left after a rocket hit Waleed's family home in Khartoum's Al Amarat district on April 18, destroying the bathroom, as fighting raged between Sudan's army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).

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