SUBSCRIBE NOW

SIGHT

Be informed. Be challenged. Be inspired.

Sudanese families fleeing to Egypt separated by new visa rules

El Safi Mahdi, Sudanese music professor plays guitar as he waits to travel to his Sudanese musician wife Sohair Saddig Ali, who fled the fighting following the crisis, at the theatre of Novelists and Artists Union in the city of Port Sudan, Sudan, June 16, 2023. REUTERS/Ibrahim Mohammed Ishak

Port Sudan, SudanReuters Elsafi Mahdi was separated from his wife and three younger children on 1st June near Sudan’s border with Egypt. He does not know when he’ll see them again. Like many families fleeing the war in the capital Khartoum, Mahdi, a prominent music teacher and conductor, left home without a visa required for […]