A Swiss ambassador described a narrow escape during a French-assisted evacuation mission from Sudan, with air strikes shaking an evacuation bus carrying diplomats to a military base. | Reuters
Local embassy staff were not evacuated with the Swiss, Winter said.Winter’s team were transported to France’s embassy in Khartoum and then took buses escorted by the Sudanese paramilitary group Rapid Support Forces to a military base outside the capital. They arrived in Bern early on Tuesday.
He described how he had to veer off the road to take cover from crossfire when the fighting first erupted ten days ago. During the following days, his residence in Khartoum was hit by crossfire that missed the windows by a few centimeters.Swiss Foreign Minister Cassis said at the same news conference that Bern was monitoring opportunities to evacuate some of the remaining 100 Swiss citizens from Sudan but admitted that it may not be possible to get those out who also have Sudanese nationality.
“It’s not very easy because joint nationals are not allowed to leave the country because of their Sudanese nationality and we will see what happens,” he said.
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