内容摘要：The south coast of the island has experienced several recent major landslips.

The south coast of the island has experienced several recent major landslips.

Still photos of the group, including several with Ms Luwam in her orange scarf, show them crammed into a room in a warehouse.Ms Mihret, who was also able to identify one of her neighbours from Eritrea among the group, said they have not been able to get any more information.

“We don’t know much, we are told they are under the custody of the Sudanese authorities.”Other Eritreans have told the BBC they have relatives registered as refugees in Sudan who have gone missing and are reportedly being held by the Sudanese military.Two of them left Eritrea together last year, arriving at a UN-run refugee camp in Kassala state in eastern Sudan in October.

Their families say that Yonatan Tesfaslassie, aged 17, and Edmon Kidane, 20, were then approached by smugglers.Such traffickers, some of whom are alleged to be from the RSF, often target the young and newly arrived promising them a safe route out of Sudan for a fee.

Once en route they put pressure on them to ask relatives abroad to pay more money and then abandon them on the way.

In Mr Yonatan’s and Mr Edmon’s case, they were aiming for South Sudan when it seems they were abandoned by the smugglers and became separated.Francesca gave birth to Marley through IVF in October 2020, but the mother-of-two admitted it was a "worrying time" to be pregnant.

"We knew there was Covid in other countries but we didn't know it would equate to what it did here," she said."If you got poorly, it was hard to think what was going to happen to the baby, what was going to happen to you, I tried not to go out at all.

"Even after we had the babies we couldn't go to any pregnancy classes, it was hard."Despite these challenges, the friendship between Leo and Marley made the initial struggles worthwhile, the mothers said.