Fleeing Syrians lament the loss of their final refuge in Sudan Zeinab Mohammed Salih in Khartoum, Emma Graham-Harrison and Hussein Akoush © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Ashraf Shazly/AFP/Getty Images
When Syrian government troops seized Mahmoud al-Ahmad’s home town, he spent his savings and risked his life getting smuggled over the Syrian border into Turkey. His planned destination was Khartoum, where a former boss had opened a carpet factory and offered him work.
The only part of the journey he hadn’t worried about was the flight from Turkey to Sudan. Until the end of last year it was the only country in the world that Syrians could travel to without a visa, a unique haven for those seeking a new life away from their country and its brutal civil war.
Fleeing Syrians lament the loss of their final refuge in Sudan
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