A little more than a week after the start of the deadly fighting, many countries have announced the evacuation of their citizens or their diplomatic personnel.
While violent clashes between the army and paramilitaries have been taking place in Sudan for a little over a week, many countries have announced the evacuation of their nationals or their diplomatic personnel.
Saturday saw the first major operation to evacuate civilians. Several ships, including Saudis but also nationals of other countries, have arrived in Jeddah, a port city in Saudi Arabia.
Later in the day, US President Joe Biden announced the evacuation of diplomatic staff from the US Embassy in Khartoum, the capital of Sudan. A “just under a hundred” people were evacuated during a helicopter operation,” said John Bass.
The senior State Department official nevertheless stressed that the evacuation of the other American nationals, who would be several hundred in Sudan, was not planned “for the moment”.
Sunday, while France began an operation to evacuate its nationals, Italy also launched an operation to get its citizens out of Sudan, but also the Swiss and members of the embassy of the Holy See.
The United Kingdom alongside “France and other allies”
For his part, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak explained that the British armed forces had also carried out the evacuation of diplomatic personnel from the United Kingdom.
Defense Minister Ben Wallace clarified that the United Kingdom had carried out this operation “alongside the United States, France and other allies” and that it had involved “more than 1,200 people” from the armed forces. British.
The German Ministries of Defense and Foreign Affairs announced on Twitter that their country had begun to evacuate its nationals. “Where possible, we will also take nationals from the EU and other countries,” they added.
On the other side of the Atlantic, the United States is not the only ones to sever relations with Sudan: Canada has also announced that it is temporarily suspending its diplomatic operations in Khartoum, indicating that its personnel will work from a “safe place outside the country”.
