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Africa-Press – Zimbabwe. <\/strong><\/span>HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) \u2013 Pauline Hungwe huddled in the bathroom of her apartment in Sudan, terrified and only peeking out of a window for a second to see the walls of nearby buildings disintegrate as they were hit by artillery fire.<\/p>\n

She was convinced her building was next and she was going to die. The only thing she thought to do was call her son back home in Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought I was done,\u201d she said. \u201cI told my son, \u2018I am gone.’\u201d<\/p>\n

Teacher Owen Shamu was preparing children at a school in Khartoum for an exam when gunfire rang out meters away from their classroom, throwing him into a panic, he said, let alone the kids.<\/p>\n

But having kept himself and his family safe through the first days of fighting, Shamu, also a Zimbabwean, had to think about a plan to get them out of Sudan with hardly any money and no immediate help from his home country. He didn\u2019t know how they would survive, he said.<\/p>\n

Amina Balarabe walked for several days with her six children to various points in Khartoum, dodging gunfire and explosions, in the hope of linking up with an evacuation convoy. Even after she found buses leaving the capital, getting home to Nigeria was still a long way away. Ahead lay more than a week of traveling to the Egyptian border.<\/p>\n

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