(21 Jul 2025)
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Cairo – 21 July 2025
1. Various of Sudanese people carrying and dragging their luggage to board train at Egypt’s central station
2. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) no name given, Sudanese journalist returning home:
"The faces (of people returning) appear filled with sorrow as they depart from this dear country, which continues to support Sudan and now stands by Sudanese institutions — represented by the Military Industry Corporation — in organizing the voluntary return of Sudanese citizens to their homeland to take part in reconstruction. This is being carried out with high-level coordination and planning with the Egyptian authorities."
3. Wide of women and children waiting in station
4. Various of people boarding train
5. Various of people in train
6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Awatif al-Hassan, Sudanese returnee:
"We came to stay in Egypt, and my daughter is with me. Now I am returning to Sudan. We heard of this initiative, and our family brought us here, thank God."
7. People boarding train
8. Train leaving
9. Tilt down exterior of Egypt’s central train station
STORYLINE:
Hundreds of people gathered at Cairo’s central train station on Monday to start the journey back home to war-torn Sudan.
The travel is part of a campaign by the Egyptian government providing free train rides back to Khartoum, the capital, which has been recently recaptured by Sudanese Armed Forces from its rival the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, or RSF.
Sudan has experienced a civil war since April 2023.
The battle for power between the military and the RSF has caused one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world.
Over 40,000 people have been killed, and the war has caused one of the world’s largest displacement crises.
People have already started returning back to the capital as its slowly rebuilds since its recapture a couple of months ago.
Egypt hosts the largest number of Sudanese refugees from the war, with over 1.5 million people fleeing across to its border.
AP video shot by Amr Nabil
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