US EditionSudan: 1.3 Million Sudanese Return Home, Offering Fragile Hope for Recovery
KHARTOUM, SUDAN, JUL 28 – Over 1.3 million Sudanese have returned home amid conflict and recovery efforts, with most heading to Khartoum and Al Jazirah despite ongoing insecurity and critical service shortages.
- The United Nations reported that over 1.3 million Sudanese have returned home since the start of this year, including one million displaced and over 300,000 refugees.
- Amid slow stabilization in Khartoum, Egypt’s National Railways Authority announced a second special train service on Sunday, 27 July, to aid voluntary Sudanese returns.
- Facing hazards, returnees encounter threats such as unexploded ordnance and widespread violence, with high risks for women and girls, the United Nations reported.
- Despite returns, funding remains critically underfunded, with only a fraction secured for vulnerable populations.
- Amid fragile hope, IOM leadership highlighted that returnees are vital to Sudan’s recovery and stressed the need for international solidarity and support.
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The Straits Times
Displaced Sudanese stream home from Egypt after army retakes Khartoum
CAIRO - Toting large suitcases and bags of belongings, the Sudanese families crowding into Cairo's main railway station hoped to be returning to relative stability after fleeing Sudan's civil war. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Fleeing the war in their country, some 1.5 million Sudanese have taken refuge in Egypt. While the regular army has taken over the capital, Khartoum, and the state of Gezira, some are beginning to return home.
Hundreds of Sudanese refugees in Cairo take up chance to return home for free
On a sweltering Monday morning at Cairo's main railway station, hundreds of Sudanese families stood waiting, with bags piled at their feet and children in tow, to board a train bound for a homeland shattered by two years of war.The war is not yet over, but with the army having regained control of key areas and life in Egypt often hard, many refugees have decided now is the time to head home."It's an indescribable feeling," said Khadija Mohamed A…
Egypt Launches Second Special Train Service for Sudanese Nationals Returning Home
In light of recent stabilization in parts of Khartoum, Egypt’s National Railways Authority announced on Sunday, 27 July, the launch of a special train service to facilitate the voluntary return of Sudanese nationals currently residing in Egypt. This is the second time the Egyptian government and the National Egyptian Railways Authority have organized this service. Previously, on Monday 21 July, train number 1940 was set to transport refugees f…
Sudan: 1.3 Million Sudanese Return Home, Offering Fragile Hope for Recovery
With pockets of relative safety emerging in Sudan, over 1.3 million Sudanese people -- including one million who were internally displaced and over 300,000 refugees -- have returned home, according to UN agencies.
Special Train Departs from Cairo to Facilitate Voluntary Return of Sudanese Refugees
A special train carrying Sudanese nationals is set to depart from Cairo’s main railway station today, heading to Aswan as part of a coordinated effort to support the voluntary return of Sudanese citizens and their families to their homeland
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