A total of 2,148 people have been evacuated from Sudan to Saudi Arabia since the start of the crisis, including more than 2,000 foreigners, according to a statement from the Saudi Foreign Ministry.
A boat, with 1,687 civilians on board fleeing the fighting in Sudan, arrived in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday (April 26th), the Saudi Foreign Ministry announced. Among them, only thirteen of the civilians are of Saudi nationality. The rest are from countries in the Middle East, Africa, Europe, Asia, North America and Central America, according to the statement.
Several evacuation operations by air and sea have already been organized by Saudi Arabia. On Saturday, a first operation allowed 150 people to arrive by boat in Jeddah, a port city in Saudi Arabia. On Monday, a C-130 Hercules military plane ferried dozens of South Korean civilians to an air base in that city and a boat was used to ferry nearly 200 people from 14 countries across the Red Sea from Port Sudan.
A total of 2,148 people have been evacuated from Sudan to Saudi Arabia so far, including more than 2,000 foreigners, the statement said.
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