Sudan: Students lament neglect, 7,000 stranded at Egyptian border

Nigeria’s Students for the current problem in Sudan’s financial issues to the Khartom, the capital.

Sudan: Students lament neglect, 7,000 stranded at Egyptian border.

It seems that the hopes of the Nigerian hope is blocked in Sunna one on the SuanRi and Friday by Friday by the fridge from their problems. The government had released 150 million naira for the hire of 40 buses to transport its desperate citizens from Sudan to Cairo in Egypt.
The money was reportedly paid to an undisclosed transportation company at 12:37 p.m. Tuesday by the Central Bank of Nigeria through the National Emergency Management Agency. It was then that the federal government said on Thursday that the Nigerian Airlines, Air Peace and other airlines have been given permission to fly to Egypt to pick up stranded Nigerians.
The evacuation of 2,400 students and other Nigerians stranded by the ongoing conflict in Sudan slowly began on Wednesday, with only 15 of the 40 vehicles needed for the exercise. Despite the end of the cessation of hostilities of the Sudanese army, stranded Nigerians, especially students, said that the embassy did not provide vehicles for evacuation on Thursday.

But speaking to Saturday PUNCH on Friday, the President of the Union of Yoruba Students Association in Sudan, Mubarak Ahmed said: “Students are still here in Khartoum, stuck. The government and the embassy here in Khartoum are playing cat and dog with our lives. “Emigration continues for other nationalities, despite the ceasefire. The suspension is not a problem but the government is not ready to evict us. “One of us needs dental help because he was attacked three days ago while going to get water. Two or three teeth were pulled out and he was bleeding profusely inside and out. ‘outside. “We can’t do much because we don’t have first aid and the hospital is closed. We can limit the injuries but it’s not very good that he is among the trapped people so far, (he is) a student at the University International of Africa. They challenge everyone,” Ahmed added.
At 6:45pm on Friday, the president of Nasarawa State Sudan Student Association, Al-Ameen Ahmad, said: “Three buses came and left because the drivers said they had not been paid. No food, no water, no network. I don’t know who is telling the government that buses are available to transport stranded students. We suffer.

But the spokesperson of the National Disaster Management Agency, Ezekiel Manzo, blamed the problem on land borders.

Border issues are the cause of delays as all arrangements are being made. We are the ones who organized their journey from Khartoum to Aswan. We also have arrangements for their flights.

But the problem is the border they have to cross to enter Egypt, so their arrival in Abuja today (Friday) is impossible. As they are thought to have already entered Egypt, the promised time of arrival is possible today. “They are still on the border. So we have to wait. I do not support this, but these citizens are escaping from a war zone, and it is natural that the Egyptian government tightens its belt around the border.
However, the Nigerian Embassy in Sudan said that the evacuation of Nigerians trapped in Khartoum to Egypt will begin on Saturday (today). This is contained in a letter signed by the charge d’affaires, H.Y. Garko, Friday.
The first export session took place on Wednesday. The statement read: “The Embassy of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in Sudan wishes to inform all Nigerian citizens who want to evacuate from the crisis in Sudan, that the Embassy will begin the second phase of the migration to Egypt for ships in Nigeria. . , tomorrow (today) 29 April 2023.
“All those interested should gather at Al-Razi University (Al-Azhari) and International University of Africa (Madani Street) in the morning. People are required to bring only one bag. Please hold on tight.

Similarly, the federal government on Friday called on relevant authorities along the Sudan border to create humanitarian conditions for up to 7,000 citizens including Nigerians to be able to enter various areas without problem.
The chairman of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, who made the call, said the people of the country were not allowed to cross the Egyptian border since they arrived on Thursday evening. Meanwhile, about 10 Nigerians are among the 2,544 people deported from Sudan by the Republic of Saudi Arabia, according to a statement from the Saudi Embassy in Nigeria to our correspondent on Friday.
The embassy said that 119 people are from Saudi Arabia while 2,425 people are from 74 countries including Nigeria. The statement read in part as follows: “Continuing with the deportation efforts of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia under the direction of the kingdom’s leadership, the rest of the deportees are going to ‘faces arriving Thursday at the port of Jeddah from the Republic of Sudan, bringing in. The total number of people who have left Sudan since the beginning of the deportees reached 2,544 people, 119 are citizens of Saudi Arabia while 2,425 people from 74 countries including 10 people from Nigeria.