She told the news, “I was able to identify Luwam immediately because she is wearing her shoes, which are partially visible, and the orange scarf that I know very well.”
The sisters are from Eritrea, and like many other young people, Luwam Gebru fled their homeland because they believed it would deny them a future due to indefinite military conscription.
In 2019, she arrived in Ethiopia’s neighbor, where she was granted refugee status. However, living as a refugee can be like living in limbo, and many people decide to do it.
Luwam,According to Ms. Mihret, many months after the crisis broke out, her 24-year-old sibling made the risky decision to go through the strife-ridden region of Sudan in order to reach Libya.
When longtime allies, the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), started battling it out for control of the nation in April 2023, Sudan fell into anarchy.
Luwam,While many foreign nationals were quickly evacuated, some refugees who were already in the nation, as well as recently arrived migrants like Ms. Luwam, discovered that they were being held as prisoners of war.
According to Ms. Mihret, “We didn’t hear her voice for almost a month.”
She had already called us from Sudan, assuring us that she had arrived safely and that we might make it to Libya this week.
