More than 1,000 European citizens have already been evacuated from Sudan in various airlifts from different member states. The figure was officially confirmed this Monday by the head of European diplomacy, Josep Borrell.
Among this group of citizens of the European Union are several Portuguese. The first group of national citizens was included in the operation carried out by the Spanish Air Force, which withdrew more than 100 people of various nationalities from the capital of the African country, Khartoum.
In this operation of the Spanish forces, carried out last night, 200 soldiers and four A400 planes participated. 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, quoted by Lusa.
Italy also carried out a similar operation, having evacuated more than 130 civilians from Khartoum, a city engulfed in violence between the Sudanese army and paramilitaries.
“[Os] 105 Italian citizens and 31 foreigners, including Portuguese, Australian, Greek, British and Swedish, were transferred to Djibouti,” the Italian government said in a statement late Sunday.
The operation was carried out “in collaboration with other European countries and allies”, having created “an authorized international airlift to reach the military base in Djibouti”.
Violent clashes have been taking place 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 lawmaker turned rival, General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo. , who commands the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group.
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
