Khartoum, Sudan:
The ongoing fighting in Sudan has led to several evacuation operations to rescue foreign nationals or embassy staff by road, air and sea.
The main airport in the capital Khartoum has been the site of heavy fighting and is under the control of the paramilitary Rapid Support Force (RSF) battling the army.
Some evacuations are taking place from Port Sudan on the Red Sea, an 850-kilometre (530 mi) drive from Khartoum.
Here’s an overview of what different nations were doing on Sunday in efforts to get stranded citizens to safety.
Saudi Arab
Saudi Arabia led the first successful evacuation from Port Sudan on Saturday with naval operations taking over 150 people, including foreign diplomats and officials.
Riyadh announced the “safe arrival” of 91 Saudi nationals and about 66 nationals from 12 other countries – Kuwait, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Tunisia, Pakistan, India, Bulgaria, Bangladesh, the Philippines, Canada and Burkina Faso.
United States of america
On Sunday, the US military dispatched three Chinook helicopters to evacuate US embassy staff from Khartoum.
More than 100 US forces participated in the rescue, which saw helicopters flying from Djibouti to Ethiopia to Sudan, where they stayed on the ground for less than an hour, to evacuate fewer than 100 people.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said he ordered the evacuation of the staff and their families because of “serious and growing security risks” that have already left hundreds dead and thousands injured.
Several thousand US citizens, including dual citizens, are believed to remain in the country.
France
Nearly 100 people of multiple nationalities have been evacuated from Sudan on the first French flight out of the country after a “complex” rescue operation, a French foreign ministry official said on Sunday.
A second flight of 100 more people is also expected to leave for Djibouti on Sunday evening, the official told reporters on condition of anonymity.
Britain
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said that British forces have evacuated UK embassy staff and their families from Sudan.
“The UK Armed Forces have completed a complex and rapid evacuation of British diplomats and their families from Sudan, following a significant escalation in violence and threats to embassy staff,” Sunak tweeted.
turkey
Ankara began operations at dawn on Sunday, moving two of its estimated 600 citizens by road from Khartoum districts and the southern city of Wad Madani.
The embassy said plans were suspended from a site in Khartoum after an “explosion” near a mosque designated as the assembly area.
European Union, Germany, Italy, Greece, Netherlands
The European Union said on Friday it was trying to coordinate an operation “to evacuate our citizens from the city which is now in a high-risk situation”. Seven EU member states have missions in Sudan.
Germany began evacuating civilians from Sudan in “an ongoing evacuation operation … in coordination with our partners,” the defense and foreign ministries tweeted on Sunday, following a failed attempt on Wednesday to relocate 150 Germans. .
Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said Rome was planning to evacuate “around 200 people”, including representatives of Italy, the Swiss and the Vatican, in a military operation on Sunday.
The Dutch Foreign Ministry said it was “participating in an international evacuation operation”, with Foreign Minister Wopke Hoekstra adding that the teams would “do their best to collect the Dutch people as quickly and safely as possible”.
Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias said the government had ordered the transfer of aircraft and troops to Egypt for a possible operation to rescue Greek and Cypriot citizens.
A Foreign Office statement said the Irish government is deploying 12 defense personnel to Djibouti to help evacuate 150 civilians in Sudan.
Jordan, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Tunisia
Jordanian Foreign Ministry spokesman Sinan Majli said on Saturday that Amman had begun the evacuation of around 300 Jordanian citizens, adding that there was “continuous cooperation with the UAE and Saudi Arabia for this purpose”.
Iraqi embassy staff left Khartoum on Saturday, foreign ministry spokesman Ahmed al-Sahhaf said, while 14 civilians arrived in Port Sudan to safety on Sunday. An Iraqi died in Khartoum “due to the current events,” Sahhaf told AFP on Sunday.
Lebanon said 60 civilians had also left Khartoum by road and were “safe” ahead of their planned evacuation by sea.
The Libyan embassy in Khartoum said on Friday that it had evacuated 83 Libyans from the capital and taken them to Port Sudan.
The Tunisian embassy has announced a planned evacuation operation on Monday to evacuate citizens remaining in the country after some people left on Saudi ships.
China, India, Japan, South Korea, Indonesia
Other foreign countries preparing for evacuation include South Korea and Japan, which have deployed troops to nearby countries.
According to a statement by the Ministry of External Affairs, India said it had two air force aircraft “on standby in Jeddah” in Saudi Arabia and a naval ship had arrived in Port Sudan, but any evacuation would “depend on the security situation”. .
The Sudanese military has said it is also coordinating efforts to evacuate diplomats from China.
Indonesia said 43 citizens were taking shelter inside the embassy compound in Khartoum.
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