Fear and exhaustion: A family's flight from Sudan to Egypt

People gather as they flee clashes between the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces and the army in Khartoum, Sudan April 24, 2023. REUTERS/El-Tayeb Siddig

CAIRO (Reuters) - Rawan al-Waleed was expecting to fly from Khartoum to Cairo last week for a wedding. Instead, she ended up travelling from Sudan to Egypt in a bus her family chartered to escape a war.

The family left after a rocket hit Waleed's family home in Khartoum's Al Amarat district on April 18, destroying the bathroom, as fighting raged between Sudan's army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).