'Can't make sense of what's happened': FRANCE 24 met with Sudanese refugees in Cairo
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00:00 Rahima happened to be in Cairo when the war started in Sudan.
00:03 This apartment he rented for vacation became the nuseltar
00:07 where this gallery owner from Khartoum welcomed his sister, Niema.
00:11 Eight months pregnant, she fled the Sudanese capital with her two children, Tamara and Mustafa.
00:17 It wasn't just the war and the shooting and the killing.
00:22 The first few days we had to stay on the floor whenever there was a shooting
00:27 because we were very scared. Honestly, the day I arrived it was the first time I got to sleep
00:34 for more than two hours straight. For a whole month I could not sleep. I could not sleep.
00:42 Like Niema, more than 170,000 people have entered Egypt from Sudan.
00:47 The United Nations Refugee Agency is warning about the humanitarian crisis.
00:53 But their situation requires urgent attention. Multiple households living in one flat,
00:58 one apartment, lots of children whose schooling has been interrupted, but they're also so
01:03 shocked and can't understand, can't make sense of what has happened.
01:07 From Cairo, Rahima is trying to help artists in Sudan organise a crowdfunding campaign.
01:12 He works for their work strapped in his gallery in Khartoum
01:16 and tries to come to terms with his new status.
01:20 I've never imagined the way I'm living it today. First of all, I never thought that I would be in
01:24 this situation at all. This is not something I've ever processed or even imagined or even said,
01:32 what if? And now that I am in it, it does not come anywhere close to what I thought I understood
01:39 of my refugee friends. I thought I understood them. I thought I understood what they were going through.
01:44 I clearly didn't.
01:46 In Iam and Rahim, more than 350,000 Sudanese have been forced to flee to neighbouring countries
01:52 without knowing if they will go back home one day.