Imagine having to pack up and flee your home of more than a decade, living out of suitcases as you make your way through border posts and foreign countries towards safety. For one family, that became reality in April when they had to flee war-torn Sudan and travel to Gqeberha. Ilse Young and her three-year-old twins, Isabella and Duncan, arrived back in Nelson Mandela Bay on Wednesday, three weeks after fleeing their home on the outskirts of Khartoum.
After almost three weeks of fleeing from war-torn Sudan, struggling their way through border posts and foreign countries and living out of suitcases with scant supplies, a Nelson Mandela Bay mother let out a sigh of relief when she landed on home soil with her three-year-old twins on Wednesday.