The number of citizens gathered is increasing more and more on the border of Sudan with Egypt in an attempt to escape the violent conflicts raging in the country and in a central port of the country, according to the Associated Press.

Sudanese citizens with their families they travel exhausting routes across the desert risking their own lives to be able to reach the border and cross into some other country, such as Egypt.

“It’s a mess – long queues of elderly, sick, women and children waiting in squalid conditions,” Moaz al-Sher, a Sudanese teacher who arrived with his wife and three children at the border a day earlier, told The Associated Press. “Authorities on both sides do not have the capacity to handle such a growing number of arrivals” he added.

At the same time, an eyewitness described how entire families spend their nights outside in the desert, waiting to be let in, sometimes waiting for days with little food before they can leave the country.