Trapped in homes running low on supplies, stuck in a country that is becoming more and more diplomatically isolated and sinking under the weight of violent civil conflict, dozens of expatriates still live in Sudan. “We have been at home for eight days, at the moment my sisters are locked in the Metropolis building,” describes in “K” S.K.. (ss his information is at the disposal of the newspaper), an immigrant from Khartoum. “We are separated by several kilometers, but we cannot have a permanent connection.” Constant interruptions in electricity make charging a mobile phone dreary, the Internet constantly disappears, and “downloading” mobile phones with units is also a problem, because. all shops are closed. “We actually talk to our people very little, just to make sure we’re all right.”

“Good” is, of course, relative. “Three people were killed in our area yesterday.” S.K. she was under siege for 24 hours in a hospital where she works as a doctor. “I was on duty around the clock on May Friday,” he recalls, “on May Saturday I was going to return home, but in the meantime hostilities broke out.” One of the first, most likely victims of the civil war was a pregnant woman who was going to the hospital for a routine checkup. “She was shot on the spot.” says “K” in shock: “We kept the fetus alive for a while, but it died a few hours later.” The young doctor, reasoning that her journey was not safe, waited until dawn the next day to return “after the fear of God” to her father’s house. Since then, she has stayed at home, as have most of her colleagues. “They announced that some specific hospitals are open, but I’m not sure if this is the case given that there are also no supplies needed for medical operations” and “many injured people have to be treated at home.”

“We are expatriates from Greek mother and father, we have been here for three generations,” but they do not have a Greek passport.

The same agony is greater for her sisters, who left for M. Saturday for service and have remained there ever since for security reasons. “Metropolis is located at the most central point of the city, which is mercilessly shelled.” In total, more than fifteen people found “shelter” in the temple and under the patronage of the Metropolitan of Nubia. Initially, with the use of existing supplies for the festive Easter table, which never happened, but for several days the cordon has been tightened for the beggars of the Metropolis, who keep in touch with the outside world thanks to the generator. For this reason, plans for the evacuation of a Greek Orthodox church are constantly being discussed. However, the rescue attempt, made a few days ago, was thwarted at the very first steps, as a “rain” of shots began.

“We come from Greece on our mother and father, we are here for three generations,” the young doctor emphasizes in fluent Greek, “all our brothers and sisters graduated from a Greek school.” However, they do not have a Greek passport. “Two years ago we went to the consulate to initiate the process of obtaining Greek citizenship, then we were told that it was difficult, that we had to go to Athens.”

In memory of S.K. no armed conflict of comparable intensity and duration has been recorded in Khartoum, 50-year-old A.T.Russia, however, has already experienced five such crises – this is the worst. “I feel like we’re in the aftermath of a personal vendetta, if one side doesn’t clearly win, they won’t stop,” reports “K” on the phone a day when he managed to have enough internet, and in his area, next to the Sudanese pentagon, fighting does not stop for a minute. “They also shot at the generator and fuel tanks, my car was literally gassed, the bullets went right through the tank, we miraculously avoided a powerful explosion,” described yesterday during a video call “K”pointing to holes in the walls and mortar damage in the garden of his house. There was constant shooting in the background. The 50-year-old man made no secret of his desire to escape the dystopian reality in question – whether he will be able to do this, no one knows. His phone has been inactive for the last 24 hours.