Going back home is not an option Syrians in Sudan want to put into consideration.
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| Some Syrians have travelled to Port Sudan to board ships to Saudi Arabia. Photo: Ibrahim Mohammed Ishak/Reuters via Al Jazeera |
Syrians fled their country to avoid the war.
Those of them living in Sudan thought sounds of airstrikes, gunfires and missiles was behind them – fleeing to the North African country, a fellow Arab nation that took them in.
The thought of safety by Syrians living in Sudan was torn to shreds with the recent outbreak of intense fighting between the Army of Sudan and the paramilitary force.
About 30,000 Syrians who have built new lives in Sudan are being faced with war threats.
Hundreds of lives have been lost in the Sudan fighting since it started more than two weeks ago, and Syrian civilians are part of the dead.
Originally from Raqqa, 30-year old Syrian refugee, Saleh Ismail al-Badran, said: “Since the beginning of the clashes, the situation has become very dire in the capital, Khartoum.
“Sudanese families began to flee the city and only foreign nationals – including Syrians, Egyptians, and citizens of African and European countries – remained on the streets on the first day of Eid al-Fitr [April 21].”
Al-Badran who has lived in Sudan for six (6) years and married a Sudanese woman, said: “Many Syrian families were threatened, robbed, and sometimes killed during their displacement from Khartoum at the hands of gangs. One of them was my friend, Ahmed, who was kidnapped with his family, while they were leaving Khartoum, by a gang.”
