‘Our Children Still In Desert Three Days After Leaving Sudan’ – Parents

Three days after Nigerian students were evacuated from their school in Khartoum, the Sudanese capital, parents have expressed concern over the state of the children.

Some parents who spoke on the condition of the children in a chat with Daily Trust on Sunday said the children are yet to cross into Egypt.

The parents further stated that the students have not gained access to Cairo, the nation’s capital, where they could travel by air to Nigeria.

A parent who had two children travelling in the entourage of four buses said they had been abandoned by their drivers.

He said that based on the information he received from the children, they were left around a boundary between Sudan and Egypt.

He said, “They were living in the open, under scorching desert conditions with no food, water or money in their possession. Among those in the entourage are little children to some Nigerians living in the country, who are perhaps taking such a long and disturbing journey for the first time.”

Eight buses are said to have left with the students and other Nigerians from Sudan’s International University of Africa (IUA) in Khartoum on Saturday.