![]() ![]() Previously, only men aged 16-50 needed visas, meaning that many women, children and elderly crossed while men stayed behind in the northern Sudanese town of Wadi Halfa waiting for days or weeks to apply for visas at the Egyptian consulate. Over 250,000 have crossed into Egypt, which on June 10 began requiring that all Sudanese obtain entry visas. More than 2.5 million people have been uprooted by the conflict between Sudan's army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) that erupted on April 15, including an estimated 600,000 who have crossed into neighbouring states. "I was telling them that I will join them in two or three days in Egypt, but I knew it was not easy and that it would take a very long time." ![]() "I'm so close to my young children, they did not accept the idea," said Mahdi, whose family decided to leave Bahri, part of Sudan's wider capital, after hearing heavy air strikes from their home. Mahdi and the two elder boys turned back to Port Sudan on the Red Sea coast, while the rest of the family headed north to Cairo. His elder sons aged 19 and 17 needed their passports renewed, a task that became impossible as the conflict paralysed central government offices. Like many families fleeing the war in the capital Khartoum, Mahdi, a prominent music teacher and conductor, left home without a visa required for entry to Egypt. He does not know when he'll see them again. PORT SUDAN, June 22 (Reuters) - Elsafi Mahdi was separated from his wife and three younger children on June 1 near Sudan's border with Egypt. Egypt tightened visa rules earlier this month.Many have camped in border town waiting for papers.About 600,000 have left Sudan as they flee war. ![]()
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