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Sudan’s well-off stuck in limbo at border town en route to Egypt

Sudan’s well-off stuck in limbo at border town en route to Egypt

MAGGIE MICHAEL AFTER sleeping for a week under a tree in the backyard of a mosque in the Sudanese town of Wadi Halfa, Dalia Hassan is torn over whether she should cross the frontier into Egypt, or wait until her 18-year-old son gets a visa. A few paces away in the hot, dusty, desert settlement, a family including three pregnant sisters and a grandmother with an oxygen cylinder take turns on rented beds as they await an Egyptian visa for Mohamed, who is 16. Amid the waves of displacement caused by the war in Sudan, many of the country's well-off have…
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Sudan’s well-off stuck at border town en route to Egypt

Sudan’s well-off stuck at border town en route to Egypt

MAGGIE MICHAEL AFTER sleeping for a week under a tree in the backyard of a mosque in the Sudanese town of Wadi Halfa, Dalia Hassan is torn over whether she should cross the frontier into Egypt, or wait until her 18-year-old son gets a visa. A few paces away in the hot, dusty, desert settlement, a family including three pregnant sisters and a grandmother with an oxygen cylinder take turns on rented beds as they await an Egyptian visa for Mohamed, who is 16. Amid the waves of displacement caused by the war in Sudan, many of the country's well-off have…
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