A group of Canadians gathered at a Sudanese military airport are under stress and dealing with hot weather, dwindling cellphone batteries and a lack of food and money, as they wait for a rescue flight out of the country.
“Conditions here are not very great,” said Gamiela Elsied, a Sudanese Canadian who made a treacherous trip to the airport, located north of the capital Khartoum, two days ago and is still waiting for a flight out after an expected flight was cancelled.
Elsied is among hundreds of Canadians trying to get out of Sudan following the eruption of a violent power struggle between the country’s
