Displaced Sudanese stream home from Egypt after army retakes Khartoum
Since the start of the year, more than 190,000 people have crossed the border from Egypt into Sudan, more than five times the number who returned in 2024, an IOM report said earlier this month.
Sudan's ambassador to Egypt, Emad el-Din Adawy, who visited the station on Monday, said the returns marked "an important stage for reconstruction and bringing back stability".
Despite the relative calm in the capital, fighting between the RSF and the army continues to rage in the central Kordofan region and al-Fashir in Darfur in the west.
The war, triggered by a dispute over a transition to civilian rule between the army and the RSF, has displaced more than 12-million people and pushed half the population into acute hunger, according to the UN.
Some Sudanese in Egypt have complained of difficulty finding jobs and discrimination, and Egypt has deported thousands of refugees it said entered illegally. Thousands of others have fled onwards to Libya.
The weekly trains from Cairo to help Sudanese to return home voluntarily have been financed by Sudanese businessmen, according to Adawy.
The Sudanese who have gone back so far have mostly headed to Khartoum, Sennar and El Gezira states to the capital's south, according to the IOM.
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