By Christian George
Not fewer than 1000 people have been evacuated from Sudan during the weekend.
Josep Borrell, the bloc’s foreign policy chief on Monday, in a that with journalists added that 21 diplomats from the EU’s mission in Khartoum were taken out and the EU ambassador had moved outside the capital to elsewhere in Sudan.
According to a report by Vanguard, a hundred French nationals and other nationalities have already been evacuated from Sudan by France and another hundred are expected to follow, the French Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Armed Forces said.
“It has been a complex operation and it has been a successful operation,” Borrel said while thanking France for helping to evacuate it’s citizens.
“And I want to thank the combined efforts of many countries that took their nationals but also all nationals that they could pick.”
Borrell said on Sunday that he had spoken to rival commanders Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and Mohamed Hamdan Daglo to call for an “immediate ceasefire”.
Report has it that there were an estimated 1,500 citizens from the bloc in Khartoum.
More than 420 people have been killed and thousands wounded, according to UN figures, amid fears of wider turmoil and a humanitarian disaster in one of the world’s poorest nations.
Also worthy of note is that across Khartoum, army and paramilitary troops have fought ferocious street battles since April 15, leaving behind charred tanks, gutted buildings and looted shops.
