Sudan refugees bring off-season tourism to Egypt’s Aswan


By AGENCY

Thousands of people have been stuck in Aswan since July. — Photos: AFP

Thousands fleeing war in Sudan have taken refuge in the Egyptian city of Aswan on the Nile, where families are helping keep the tourism industry afloat far from the horrors they left behind.

“We finally made it to Aswan,” said Hisham Ali, 54, who reached Egypt after an odyssey that took his family south of the fighting in Khartoum, before heading over 1,000km north again to the Egyptian border.

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