EXCLUSIVE: Esra Osman said her mother, Haram Osman, 58, had been visiting relatives in the city of Kosti, just south of the Sudanese capital of Khartoum, when the fighting erupted last week.
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of diplomats because they don t know what they re going to do now and there are no british consular staff now left in khartoum. the former uk ambassador to sudan sir nicholas kay explained the difficulties residents of khartoum are facing. it is at the confluence, the joining of the blue nile and the white nile, so there is a complicated geography involving bridges linking different parts of the city together. bridges are easily controlled and will be controlled now by either the sudanese armed forces or the rapid support forces, so those are difficult points and checkpoints to get across. and of course the international airport in khartoum is right slap bang in at the centre of town in a residential area about a