Nigerians studying in Sudan say the Nigerian embassy in the country has abandoned them and failed to give them information updates on the ravaging war.
Crisis broke out in the country after weeks of power struggles between the two generals who seized power in a 2021 coup: Sudan’s army chief, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, and his deputy, Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, who commands RSF.
No fewer than 200 civilians were reportedly killed in the war that erupted in Khartoum between aggrieved parties in the country.
However, a Nigerian student trapped in Sudan, alleged that unlike their counterparts from Niger Republic, Cameroon, and Kenya who were regularly updated on the precarious situation on the war by their respective Embassies in Sudan, there was nothing as such coming from the Nigerian Embassy.
Umar Faruk told Voice of America (VOA) Hausa Service that all Nigerian students were safe as even in a University close to a military facility where some of the combat soldiers entered, there was nothing untoward that happened to the Nigerian students in the university.
Farouk explained that even though there was rumour on the war which had frightened parents and relations of the students in Nigeria, there were still peaceful places in Sudan and Nigerian students in these places were very safe.
He ruled out the possibility of the over 2000 Nigerian students leaving the country either through the airport or moving to the border with neighbouring Egypt, adding that doing so would be difficult because “the airport is already closed for operation.”
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”And if we are to move to the border with Egypt, how can such a large number of Nigerian students embark on such a long trip?” He wondered.
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