Spain has announced today that it has managed to airlift a hundred people out of Sudan, including Portuguese, as part of the movement to leave foreign citizens and diplomatic personnel with the military plane on its way to Djibouti.
The Spanish military plane “took off from Khartoum shortly before 11:00 p.m. local time (10:00 p.m. local time) with a hundred passengers,” the Spanish government reported in a statement.
In addition to Spaniards, among the passengers there are Portuguese, Italians, Poles, Irish, Mexicans, Venezuelans, Colombians and Argentines, as well as Sudanese, detail sources from the Spanish Ministry of Defense.
The Portuguese government had said that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MNE) and the Ministry of National Defense were “working together, together with other allied countries, with a view to the safe withdrawal of national citizens who are in Sudan.”
“All known national citizens in Sudan have already been contacted and the different situations are being monitored,” the Foreign Ministry said in a statement released today.
The MNE had advanced to Lusa that there were a little more than “a dozen” Portuguese who were in Sudan when the fighting broke out, a week ago, and, contacted again tonight, did not provide more data on national citizens than those revealed by the Spanish authorities. have withdrawn from the country.
The Spanish plane “flies with more than 30 Spaniards and another 70 European and Latin American citizens transferred from Khartoum, the capital of Sudan, to Djibouti, after an operation coordinated by the ministries of Foreign Affairs, the European Union and Cooperation and Defense,” he specified. the Government of Spain.
“No incidence in the transfer,” the Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation, José Manuel Albares, also reported on the social network Twitter.
In addition to those withdrawn in today’s operation, a group of Spaniards voluntarily decided to remain in Sudan or to leave it by other means, while others managed to leave the country even before the implementation of this device.
In today’s operation, the Ministry of Defense added, around 200 soldiers participated.
Sudan entered the second week of violent fighting today, in a conflict pitting the forces of General Abdel Fattah al-Burhane, the country’s de facto leader since the 2021 coup, and his former lawmaker-turned-rival, General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, who Commands the paramilitary group Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
The provisional balance of the clashes indicates that there are more than 420 dead and 3,700 injured, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
Source: TSF
