Sydney (Australia), May 1. The Australian government reported Monday that it managed to evacuate more than 150 Australians who were trapped in Sudan, a country plunged into chaos by fighting between paramilitaries from the Rapid Support Forces and the regular Army.
These Australians are “safe and sound” in Jeddah (Saudi Arabia), where they arrived the day before, Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong said today on her Twitter account, thanking the help of the United States and its international partners. .
The head of diplomacy of Australia, a country where some 25,000 people born in Sudan and South Sudan live, urged her compatriots to consider the possibility of leaving that country “as soon as possible”, by assuring that the Canberra Executive will continue working with its international partners in future evacuations.
Wong also highlighted the extension of the ceasefire in Sudan until May 3, and called on the parties to the conflict to agree to a “permanent cessation” of hostilities and pave the way for a democracy led by civilians.
Many countries, including Spain, began the repatriation of their citizens from Sudan more than a week ago, affected since the middle of last month by a conflict between the Sudanese Army and the Rapid Support Forces (FAR) group, two military rivals that together they overthrew the transitional government in a coup in October 2021. EFE
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