Irish citizen Zenira Elbasheer says her family have no internet access and are difficult to contact
“Yesterday it was only until about 3pm that I managed to even take get a two-minute phone call with my dad, and that’s after just repeatedly running through their numbers, one after the other, until one of them eventually gets through,” she told The Irish Times.
“They got their initial email telling them to stay in place. The air strikes in the area were getting extremely, extremely dangerous. Buildings in our neighbourhood have been completely crumbling, so as you can imagine that there was no possible way for them to stay there. They had to leave to my parents’ hometown, with very little contact with anyone, nowhere to stay,” she said.
Irish citizens who are still in Sudan to watch for updates from the Irish embassy account in neighbouring Kenya on Twitter and to stay indoors and stay safe until further advised by the Irish team on the ground. GOAL’s Regional Security Advisor Paul Westbury, who is leading GOAL’s security and safety response in Sudan has said that he suspects the death toll in the country to be substantially higher than reported.
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