in Khartoum, the feeling that “foreigners have abandoned us”

Mohamed had difficulty crossing Khartoum to see his mother. Four days ago, extremely violent fighting hit the Bahri neighborhood where she lives, in the north of the Sudanese capital. “In my mother’s neighborhood, they came right up to the gates of the house”, he explains. A grenade, which did not explode, was found inside the house. Mohamed noted a strong presence of militiamen, rapid support forces, who oppose General al-Burhan. Soldiers and paramilitaries criss-crossing Khartoum and clashing, with civilians in the middle.

“There are a lot of agents, they ask the drivers of the cars for their papers, they ask questions: what are you doing? What do you have on you? Could you open cars ?”

Mohamed, resident of Khartoum

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“There are a lot of soldiers in the streets, we really don’t know what will happen”, he adds. Because he does not want to leave his elderly parents, Mohamed does not intend to leave Sudan. The truce, which lasted three days, allowed the evacuation of several thousand foreign nationals, including 214 French.

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The Sudanese left behind have to contend with shortages of water, food and electricity. These evacuations have therefore sometimes been interpreted negatively: “The Sudanese have seen the foreigners leaving quickly, so they feel that they have abandoned Sudan”develops Mohamed. Tells him to understand that the strangers have made the decision to leave. The situation here is terrible, repeats Mohamed, whose greatest fear is that Sudan will descend into civil war.