Nineteen students taking up Islamic Studies in strife-torn Sudan, along with five other Filipinos, returned to the country before noon on Wednesday on board a Saudi Airlines flight. Know more:
Nineteen students taking up Islamic Studies in strife-torn Sudan, along with five other Filipinos, returned to the country before noon on Wednesday on board a Saudi Airlines flight.
“Ang importante makaligtas at umalis muna kami sa lugar na ’yun at hindi na kami babalik sa Sudan,” Mary Grace vowed. “Our DMW [Department of Migrant Workers] and OWWA [Overseas Workers Welfare Administration] teams continue to look after our distressed OFWs as part of our commitment to bring them home in close coordination, of course, with the DFA [Department of Foreign Affairs],” Ople said.They belong to the 340 OFWs that were assisted by the DFA and the Philippine Embassy in Cairo in crossing over from the Sudan Port into the Argeen Land Port Authority in Aswan, Egypt.
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