Sudan refugees bring off-season tourism to Egypt's Aswan

"We finally made it to Aswan," said Hisham Ali, 54, who reached Egypt after an odyssey that took his family south of the fighting in Khartoum, before heading over 1,000 kilometres (600 miles) north again to the Egyptian border.

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Sudanese women who fled the war in their country share a meal on the banks of the Nile river in the Egyptian city of Aswan, on September 8, 2023. (AFP)