The Aliko Dangote Foundation (ADF) has offered relief to more Nigerian nationals fleeing the conflict in Sudan.
Two men in their 70s who had planned to go on lesser Haj by road through Khartoum got caught up in the war. Even though they tried another route, they were unable to reach their destination having lost all their belongings and their money.Several returnees had lost their various businesses to the war. Those businesses included leather works, tailoring, shoe making, buying and selling scrap metal.
An aged man, Muhammad Saidu Ahmed, said, “I came back from Sudan without a dime’, now I have N100,000.An aged woman narrated that when relatives in Sudan reported that they had lost her son while fleeing, she went in search of him only to discover that he died during a bomb blast.The 80-year-old lady, said most of her family managed to escape death traps, bombings all the while desperately fighting hunger, the loss of their homes and livelihoods and displacement.
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