Abandoned and traumatised: child refugees at ‘violent’ breaking point in Egypt after fleeing Sudan war

Three years of conflict has left hundreds of thousands of Sudanese children out of school and vulnerable to gangs and drugsMounds of rubbish, the stench of raw sewage and, at night, roaming drug dealers and gangs. These are the streets of a forsaken neighbourhood in Cairo that Sudanese children call home, after fleeing the violence of their country’s civil war.It is here that Tala*, a social worker, spends her days trying to bring deeply traumatised war refugees back from the brink. She shares the story of an eight-year-old boy who was suicidal, repeatedly telling his mother that he wanted to die so he could join his father, who was killed in Sudan before they fled to Egypt. Continue reading...