Sisters Nahed and Buthaina fled to Egypt to escape the violence in Sudan. They were stopped at the Arqin border crossing by Egyptian passport officers.

Egyptian officer told them, "What hurts you hurts us, we are brothers in blood, religion, language and destiny" The sisters' bodies were left to rot in their homes in Sudan, where no ambulance comes, and no hospitals are working. They walked for several kilometers carrying the two elder sister Nahed's two children, and stuck to the walls.