Italy announced the withdrawal of 136 people from Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, including Portuguese, to Djibouti in an operation coordinated by the Italian foreign ministry.
“[Os] 105 Italian nationals and 31 foreigners, including Portuguese, Australians, Greeks, British and Swedes, were transferred to Djibouti,” the Italian government said in a statement. on Sunday evening.
The operation was conducted “in collaboration with other European countries and allies”, creating “an international airlift authorized to reach the military base in Djibouti”.
Spain also announced on Sunday evening that it had managed to move about a hundred people from Sudan, including Portuguese, to Djibouti by air as part of the movement of foreign citizens and diplomatic personnel to leave.
In addition to Spaniards, the passengers include Portuguese, Italians, Poles, Irish, Mexicans, Venezuelans, Colombians and Argentines, as well as Sudanese, detailed 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 “cooperating, together with other allied countries, for the safe withdrawal of national citizens who are in Sudan”.
“All known national citizens in Sudan have already been contacted and the various situations are being monitored,” the foreign ministry said.
The MNE had previously advanced to Lusa there were no more than “a dozen” Portuguese who were in the Sudan when the fighting broke out.
The Spanish plane “is flying with more than 30 Spaniards and 70 other European and Latin American citizens taken from Khartoum, the capital of Sudan, to Djibouti, following an operation coordinated by the Ministries of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation and Defense”. the government of Spain.
Violent clashes have erupted in Sudan since April 15, in a conflict between the forces of General Abdel Fattah al-Burhane, the country’s de facto leader since the 2021 coup, and a former deputy-turned-rival, General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo . , who commands the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group.
The preliminary balance of the clashes indicates that more than 420 people have been killed and 3,700 injured, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
Source: DN
