Pregnant woman who escaped from Sudan gives birth to 'miracle boy'

A heavily pregnant woman who was shot at, escaped an overturned car and had to walk for hours in the middle of the night to reach a border crossing with her three-year-old daughter has given birth to a miracle baby, her husband has said

- Diane Taylor

The woman had been trapped in the war-torn Sudanese capital Khartoum after fighting broke out last month, while her husband who works as a carer in Wolverhampton tried to get her a UK visa.

The couple, both 25, are Eritrean refugees who cannot be named for security reasons. The husband was granted refugee status after claiming asylum in the UK, and applied to the Home Office for a refugee family reunion visa in February 2022.

His wife and daughter were waiting in Khartoum before the fighting started as it was safer there than in Eritrea. The wife became pregnant after her husband visited her and their daughter in Khartoum in the autumn of last year.

However, once the fighting started in Sudan the flat she was staying in was hit by shelling. With food and water scarce, and little access to medical treatment, the woman decided to try to make her way to Egypt.