George Iskander Ibrahim has not left his apartment in Khartoum for two weeks. Food and water are running out, and so are his heart and hypertension medications.
At 89, the Richmond Hill man still keeps himself busy and travels back and forth between Canada and Sudan, where he and his brother run an electrical wiring factory that employs 50 local people.
“I am scared,” a shaken Ibrahim, a religious Coptic Orthodox, told his daughter and granddaughter in a brief phone call on Thursday as the minutes on his calling card were running out. But what Ibrahim and his family fear most is that the Canadian evacuation flights will unlikely continue past this week, with the latest fragile ceasefire soon to expire.
Defence Minister Anita Anand was pleased with the news some flights had succeeded but called the whole situation “volatile” with intermittent power and communications systems.
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