Kaki, who eventually managed to get a flight out to Khartoum after spending two days at the airport, was completing a six-week training stint at the Al Maadi Olympic centre in the south of Cairo when the angry demonstrations which are convulsing the country broke out.

He and his party - his pacemaker Abadala and Ibrahim Aden, brother of his Qatar-based coach, Jama – were advised by staff it was unsafe to leave the building.

"It was a really bad situation for them," said Mustafa Mohammed, whose brother Mukhtar, one of Britain's most promising 800m runners, is coached by Aden, and who has been in contact with Ibrahim by phone.

"For several days there was no police outside - no security at all.

"The criminals escaped from prison and they try to wreck everything.

"They start to rob the people in the stree, to rob the shops and markets.

"Everyone was able to be burgled at any time.

"People were carrying knives, guns.

"There was a lot of shooting around the sport centre.

"Everyone was worried about what can happen next.

"No one could feel safe at all.

"Ibrahim told me there was also a lack of food in the last few days because no one could go out.

"It was a very bad experience."



Kaki, who has trained at the Al Maadi centre regularly since 2007, staying in the hotel within the complex, was able to get out eventually when the military imposed control in the area, which is popular with visitors.

He and his pacemaker flew to Khartoum, and are due to fly on to Germany, where Kaki is making his indoor debut in Saturday's (February 5) Sparkassen Cup meeting in Stuttgart.

Meanwhile Ibrahim has also managed to get a flight to Germany after the military allowed him to make a journey to the airport.

"Thank God, Kaki, Abadala and Ibrahim are out from Egypt," Jama Aden told insidethegames today.

"I spoke with them and they told me they were really worried as there were so many things happening around the sport centre and they were worried for a while they might not get out.

"But Kaki told me his is still on focus for the Stuttgart meeting."

Kaki, who had to spend his last few days in the centre training indoors, plans to compete in Stuttgart on February 5 and then go on to run in the meetings at the Meeting Pas de Calais in Lievin on February 8, the Aviva Grand Prix in Birmingham on February 19 and the XL Galan meeting in Stockholm on February 22.

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