Father reunited with family in Sudan after Al Jazeera news report

Fatma Ali and her children find anticipation aft reuniting with hubby and begetter Shamoun Idris amid Sudan’s ongoing humanitarian crisis.

A Sudanese father who had mislaid interaction with his woman for 18 months has been reunited with his household aft recognising them successful an Al Jazeera quality report.

Shamoun Idris lived with his wife, Fatma Ali, and their children successful Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, until the metropolis became a battleground betwixt Sudan’s regular service and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) successful August 2023, a fewer months aft the warfare successful Sudan started.

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As the warfare intensified and shelling accrued adjacent their home, the mates decided that Fatma would effort to flight Khartoum with their children. Shamoun would enactment down and support the location arsenic RSF forces advanced, looting homes and attacking civilians.

“I decided that they should leave,” Shamoun told Al Jazeera’s Mohamed Vall, who reported connected the archetypal communicative featuring Fatma and their children. “I stayed down to defender the house. We thought the warfare would extremity soon and they would beryllium capable to return.”

But soon after, and with the unit successful the superior increasing, Idris was besides forced to flee. In the process, some Shamoun and Fatma mislaid their phones and were incapable to interaction each other, with nary cognition of wherever the different was.

The mates became 2 of the 7,700 Sudanese radical searching for missing relatives, according to the International Committee of the Red Cross.

“I kept telling the children helium was somewhere, conscionable incapable to scope us, but, successful fact, I was wholly astatine a loss, and I was wondering what truly happened to him. I couldn’t absorption connected the children oregon connected him being missing,” said Fatma.

Reunion

Fatma and the children yet reached Sennar, southbound of Khartoum, wherever they sheltered successful a school.

Meanwhile, Shamoun searched for them successful vain, until helium yet saw an Al Jazeera quality study from February astir missing relatives.

In the study was his wife, Fatma.

“I said, ‘Man, this is my family!’ I said, ‘I swear, it’s my family.’ It was specified a immense surprise,” Shamoun said.

As Fatma listened to her hubby archer the communicative of their caller reunion, she began to cry, overwhelmed with the emotion of Shamoun’s absence.

She said her anticipation present is for the household to rebuild their lives. “I anticipation we tin spell backmost and instrumentality to our erstwhile life. I knew my children would beryllium OK arsenic agelong arsenic I was with them, but for their begetter to beryllium gone, that was a existent problem.”

“Our children went to schoolhouse and were precise happy. Not 1 of our children was retired of school; they adjacent went to backstage schools, not nationalist ones,” she said. “Now, it’s been much than 2 years since they saw the wrong of a classroom, but arsenic determination to shelter.”

Since being reunited, Shamound has recovered a tiny crippled of onshore successful Sennar, wherever helium has built a small shack for the family.

It has nary doorway to support retired rain, upwind oregon sun, but thousands of different displaced radical successful Sudan bash not person immoderate structure astatine all.

For now, Shamoun and Fatma are grateful for the small privateness and state it provides, and for being together.

Source:

Al Jazeera and quality agencies