Foreign governments evacuate their diplomatic staff from Sudan as rival generals continue their battle for control of Africa’s third-largest country
More than 420 people, including 264 civilians, have been killed and more than 3,700 have been wounded in the fighting.
France, Greece and other European nations were organising a mass exodus Sunday. French Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Anne-Claire Legendre said France was undertaking the operation with the help of European allies. Italy dispatched military jets to the Gulf of Aden nation of Djibouti to extract 140 Italian nationals from Sudan, many of whom have taken refuge in the embassy, said Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani.
Egypt urged citizens stranded in cities other than Khartoum to head to its consular offices in Port Sudan and Wadi Halfa in the north for evacuation, the state-run MENA news agency reported. Overland travel across areas contested by the rival parties has proven dangerous. Khartoum is some some 840 kilometers from Port Sudan on the Red Sea.
The power struggle between the Sudanese military, led by General Abdel-Fattah Burhan, and the Rapid Support Forces, led by General Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo, has dealt a harsh blow to Sudan's heady hopes for a democratic transition.
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