The crisis in Sudan

Reunified families who crossed the border from Sudan to Egypt. Fatima Shbair / AP  

The crisis in Sudan  

Fleeing stuck at the border: "Children and women cry"  

Many who fled the fighting in Sudan's capital, Khartoum, have had to wait at the border with Egypt under bare skies for several days, writes The Guardian. Witnesses speak of a lack of food, water and toilets at the border checkpoints, where only a few local police officers are stationed to look after thousands of exhausted people.   

23-year-old Rana Ameen describes a "deadly journey".  

- Babies cried when they were lying on the ground. Women cried. Thousands of men stood in very long queues to get visas, she tells the newspaper. 

According to the Washington Post, at least 14,000 Sudanese have entered the neighboring country in the past week. Others have made their way to South Sudan or Chad - but everywhere faced a new humanitarian crisis.  

Fighting between the regular army and the paramilitary RSF in Sudan has now entered its third week.  

Abdullah Hamdok. Archive image. AP  

The former prime minister: Could be a nightmare for the world  

The fighting in Sudan risks having catastrophic consequences for the entire world. This is what the country's former Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok says, according to several media.  

- This is a gigantic country. I think it will be a nightmare for the world, he said at a press conference in the Kenyan capital Nairobi on Saturday.  

Hamdok drew comparisons to the civil wars in Syria and Yemen, which have claimed hundreds of thousands of lives and displaced several million people.  

- God forbid that this becomes a full-scale civil war. The wars in Syria, Yemen and Libya will appear small in comparison. 

Evacuation. Arron Hoare / AP / Royal Navy  

British were prevented by the army - the final evacuation was delayed  

Britain has ended its evacuation effort from Sudan, British media reports. Close to 1,900 people, most of them British citizens, have been flown out on 21 planes.  

But the last plane was delayed on Saturday night, according to The Observer. There are then reports that parts of the regular army have prevented British citizens from reaching the airbase north of Khartoum. The flight finally left the capital at 10 p.m., writes the BBC.  

Tens of thousands have fled Sudan since fighting between the army and paramilitary RSF broke out two weeks ago. The official death toll so far is 459, but is feared to be much higher.