Sudan’s armed forces said countries including the United States, Britain, France and China would evacuate their diplomatic staff and nationals.
Sudan’s army announced Saturday that countries including the United States, Britain, France and China would evacuate their diplomatic staff “within the coming hours” from the country wracked by fighting between rival forces.The Sudanese Armed Forces said in a statement that Army chief Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan had agreed to facilitate and secure evacuations of foreign nationals out of the capital, Khartoum, after requests from various countries.
It was not immediately clear how many people would be evacuated or which governments planned to evacuate mainly diplomatic personnel or other nationals as well. The United States, South Korea, Japan and the Netherlands were among countries who sent planes and troops to Sudan’s neighbors in recent days to prepare to extricate diplomatic personnel or other citizens.
The violence has killed at least 400 people since last week and injured thousands, sending people in Darfur streaming into neighboring Chad.The warring factions said they had agreed to a temporary cease-fire for the Muslim holiday Eid al-Fitr this weekend after rising calls from world leaders to stop the hostilities, although both reported some battles on Friday and accused the other of violations.
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