Cairo - Ahmed Abdalla sat on the sidewalk in the heart of Cairo, waiting for a bus that would start his return to Sudan. He had no idea what he would find in his homeland, destroying and still got involved in a 2-year war.

His wife and son did not go with him, and he sat next to him to bid for him. Abdalla plans to return for a year and then decide whether to take her family with her seat.

"No clear vision. Until when will we have to wait?" Abdullah said, holding two bags of clothes. When his wife burst into tears, he said, “The moment I was separated from my family was really hard.”

Abdullah is thousands of Sudanese who were expelled from their homeland and are now back. They hope that after the military regained its rapid support force in the capital Khartoum and other regions in recent months, they hoped that they would have some stability.

But in some parts of the country, the war remains fierce. In areas recaptured by the military, people return to find their neighborhoods broken, often without electricity and scarce food, water and services.

The battle for power between the military and the RSF has created one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world. Famine is spreading. According to the United Nations, although the number may be higher, at least 20,000 people were killed.

Nearly 13 million people fled their homes, about 4 million of whom were flowing into neighboring countries, while the rest sought shelter elsewhere in Sudan.

So far, a portion of displacement is relatively small, but the numbers are accelerating. In the international provinces of Ghezla and Southeast Sernar, approximately 400,000 internally displaced Sudanese have returned to their homes in the Khartoum region.

IOM said about 123,000 Sudans have returned from Egypt since January 1, of which nearly 50,000 have so far in April, twice the previous month. UNHCR said about 1.5 million Sudans fled to Egypt during the war.

NFA DRE, who fled to northern Sudan, moved back with his family to the capital's sister city in northern Khartoum, and the army moved back in March.

They found decomposed bodies and unexploded ordnance on the street. Their home was plundered.

"Thank God, we have no loss of life, just a significant loss, which has nothing to do with life," Dray said. Three days of work have made their families live.

But the conditions are difficult. Not all markets have reopened, and few medical services are available. Residents rely on a charitable kitchen run by a group of community activists called “Emergency Response Room,” Dray said. They dragged water from the Nile to cook and drink. His home has no electricity, so he charges his phone in a mosque with solar panels.

"We asked the authorities for generators, but they replied that they didn't have a budget to provide them," Dray said. "We have nothing to say."

The wrong volunteer Salah Semsaya said he knew the displaced people who tried to return to Wad Madani, the capital of Gezira province, but found that the basics of life were so that they returned to the displaced shelter.

Others were too alert. "They are worried about serving their children. They are worried about their livelihoods," said Sheldon Yett, a representative of the United Nations Children's Fund.

During the entire war, there was no functional government. The military-backed transitional management agency is headquartered in Port Sudan, located along the Red Sea coast, but has little or no resources. After the military regains Khartoum, it will establish a new interim government.

The United Nations is providing cash assistance to some. UNICEF managed to bring several supply trucks into Khartoum. But aid is still limited, and “the demand is far greater than the available resources,” said Assadullah Nasrullah, UNHCR Sudan Communications Officer.

The Egyptian Sudanese fought against the question of whether to return. Mohamed Karaka, who has been in Cairo with his family for nearly two years, told the Associated Press that he was packing his bags and returning to the Kharokum area. But at the last moment, his brother was also in Egypt, thinking it wasn't safe, and Karaka canceled the trip.

"I miss my house and the dream of building a life in Sudan. My biggest problem is my children. I don't want to raise them outside of foreign Sudan," Karaka said.

Every day, hundreds of Sudans take two to three buses to southern Egypt, which is the first round of the journey home.

Abdalla is one of many families waiting for the midnight bus earlier this month.

He was going to return to Sudan, but not to his El-Fasher in the Northern Darfur province. The area is past and remains a brutal war zone between RSF combatants and Army units. Abdalla and his family fled early in the war, and battle broke out around them.

"We missed every corner of the house. When we left, we grabbed nothing except for two clothes, thinking the war would be short," said Abdullah's wife, Mayeda.

"We hear bad news about our area every day," she said. "It's all death and hunger."

Abdalla and his family first moved to El-Gadarif in southeastern Sudan, and then to Egypt in June.

He is back at El-Gadarif to see if it is livable. Many schools there are closed to shelter displaced people. He said that if stability does not recover in time and education does not recover, his children will remain in Egypt.

“It’s a ridiculous war,” Abdullah said. He pointed out that the RSF and the military were once allies, and they jointly suppressed Sudan's pro-democracy movement before calming down on each other. "At some point both sides were unified and beat us. When they started to be different, they still hit us," he said.

“We just want peace and security and stability.”