Those stranded in Sudan from the countries of Yemen, Syria and Nigeria appealed for the need to intervene to evacuate them from the capital Khartoum and Port Sudan, which are witnessing a large exodus of people fleeing the ongoing clashes in the country.
The stranded have launched appeals on social media platforms for their transfer to Saudi Arabia on the other side of the Red Sea.
Students and members of volunteer committees to organize the evacuation of the stranded documented the situation of scholarship students and the Yemeni, Syrian and Nigerian communities in the city.
The filmed scenes showed the presence of dozens of people stuck in the open amid difficult humanitarian conditions, and some of them spread the ground on the streets of Port Sudan, amid an acute shortage of food and necessary supplies.
One of the Yemeni students criticized the abandonment of their country’s government in these difficult conditions, and the lack of flights to evacuate them, like the rest of the countries of the year that continue to rescue their nationals.
A member of the General Union of Yemeni students in Sudan, Suhaib al-Samei, documented via a live broadcast on Facebook on Friday evening that dozens of people gathered at the port of Port Sudan waiting for evacuation convoys.
In another video, Al-Samei said that a committee of Yemeni students took care of collecting the passports of family members and organizing them with official documents in order to provide them to Saudi authorities, hoping that they would be evacuated by ship to Saudi Arabia.
In a related context, a Syrian citizen residing in Sudan named Radwan Khalid broadcast live scenes from the gathering of hundreds of people wishing to leave Port Sudan through his Facebook account, describing the situation as “tragic”.
Khaled appealed to the concerned authorities to speed up the dispatch of convoys of those wishing to leave Sudan, before the situation worsens or the foodstuffs available to the community become scarce.
Similar to Yemen and Syria, the Nigerian community suffers from no less dangerous and worse conditions than other expatriates and residents in Sudan.
Nigerian activist Hamid al-Hassan posted on Facebook a video documenting the conditions of Nigerians stuck at the International University of Africa in Khartoum, accusing his country’s Embassy of fraud and manipulation, saying “the community members took refuge from the International University of Africa in Khartoum after being stranded”.
Al-Hassan addressed the UN organizations to save the children and women stuck at the University from the danger of continuous clashes in Khartoum.
The video showed children and women sitting in the outdoor courtyards of the University with their belongings, without food or any other supplies.
Since April 15, large-scale clashes have been taking place in Sudanese states between the army led by Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and the Rapid Support forces led by Mohammed Hamdan Daglo (Hamidti), after which Arab and Western countries moved to evacuate their nationals from Khartoum either by military aviation or by steamships.
This article was originally published by Al Jazeera.
Translated by Mideast Discourse editor team.
