Azhaar Sholgami tried to save her ailing grandparents stuck amid fighting in central Khartoum. She put in calls from New York to Sudan’s two warring factions, aid workers, and embassies near her grandparents’ home, but her efforts were in vain
CAIRO, May 15 - As she tried to save her ailing grandparents stuck amid fighting in central Khartoum, Azhaar Sholgami put in calls from New York to Sudan’s two warring factions, aid workers, and embassies near her grandparents’ home, but her efforts were in vain.
“The process has been exhausting,” said Sholgami, a student living in New York, as she detailed the family’s increasingly frantic efforts to help the elderly couple, Alaweya Reshwan and Abdullah Sholgami, who were married for 60 years. “The British embassy is four steps from my grandparents’ house… My grandfather is also a British citizen. Every time we called or filled in a form, we would get asked if he had dual citizenship. How does that make him any less of a priority?” she said.
RSF fighters took over their house - as Khartoum residents say they have done to homes across the city, though the group denies this. “We wanted to see if they could just send them food or water. We tried at least 30 times to get them evacuated, but nothing worked,” she said.
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