Nigerians seem to be the only foreign students left stranded in Sudan, one has told the BBC in a distressed call.
“It’s only the Nigerian students left here in Sudan, everybody has left, only us,” the university student, who does not want to be named, said.
Other African nations like South Africa, Kenya, Mali, Ivory Coast and Uganda are among countries that have announced the evacuation of some of their nationals.
“It’s just so traumatising,” she continued, adding with a broken voice that she hoped Nigeria would come for her and her classmates’ rescue soon.
She said Nigeria kept “delaying” the sending of buses to evacuate them. She was expecting them to come on Tuesday, but they never arrived. She was then told by the embassy that the buses would pick them up at 06:00 local time today, but they hadn’t as of 10:00.
In addition, the embassy said only five buses would arrive, but that was not enough to transport all the students, she said.
The people in her university hostel were also low on food supplies, she said, and were just trying to survive: “We are starving here.”