'All are afraid of what’s next': Sudanese crowd at borders to escape amid shaky truce

Gunfire and explosions could be heard in the city, though residents said clashes were in more limited pockets.
'All are afraid of what’s next': Sudanese crowd at borders to escape amid shaky truce

(AP)

Sudanese families are massing at a border crossing with Egypt and at a main port, desperately trying to escape their country’s violence and sometimes waiting for days with little food or shelter, witnesses said.

In the capital, Khartoum, the intensity of fighting eased on the second day of a three-day truce.

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