Thousands of people have fled fierce street battles in central Khartoum for Sudan’s borders, waiting for days to enter Egypt or walking hundreds of kilometres to cross into South Sudan.
Rana Ameen, a 23-year-old engineering student, said she and five family members had paid the equivalent of $600 each to travel to the border crossing with Egypt, almost 1,000km away.
To reach the bus station on the outskirts of Omdurman, Khartoum’s twin city on the other bank of the Nile, the family were forced to make their way through the centre of the capital, where bitter fighting between two armed
