The government is preparing to evacuate more Filipinos from Sudan following the departure of an initial batch of 50 after a 72-hour ceasefire was declared in the East African country. | JeromeAningINQ
The government, he said, was trying to find “alternative ways” to evacuate them since land routes were not completely safe and airports were being bombed.
The Department of Foreign Affairs said that 50 Filipinos left Khartoum, the capital of Sudan, by land on Monday night . They will travel to Aswan, then to the Philippine Embassy in Cairo. “Many of them brought nothing, and there are children and women among them, so we want to make sure that there are proper facilities,” she told reporters.‘Welfare assistance stations’
According to her, the President’s instruction was “to get all of them to safety as quickly as possible,” whether or not they had travel documents.
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