Saudi Arabia evacuates its citizens from Sudan while Jordan prepares the departure of 300 nationals

The US Embassy in Sudan maintains that the situation in Khartoum is "too dangerous" for a "coordinated evacuation"

MADRID, 22 Abr. (EUROPA PRESS) -

Saudi Arabia has announced this Saturday the evacuation of 91 citizens and 66 foreign nationals from Sudan while the Jordanian government has also confirmed the start of preparations to remove 300 of its citizens from the African country despite the chaotic situation that is currently taking place. lives in the capital, Khartoum, where the ceasefire declared yesterday by the Army and paramilitaries from the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), has been cracking in the last few hours.

The Saudi Foreign Ministry, on its Twitter account, has announced the "safe return" of these evacuees, including diplomats and international officials. The evacuated foreigners come from Kuwait, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Tunisia, Pakistan, India, Bulgaria, Bangladesh, the Philippines, Canada and Burkina Faso.

The Jordanian Foreign Affairs spokesman, Sinan Majali, also announced this Saturday the beginning of the evacuation process of 300 Jordanian citizens in an operation in which Saudi Arabia and the Emirates cooperate, reports the official Jordanian news agency Petra.

Also in the last few hours, the South Korean government has confirmed the arrival in Djibouti of a C-130J transport plane, which was carrying around 50 people, including medical and security personnel, ready to undertake the evacuation mission at the time circumstances allow.

This process takes place in the midst of an enormously chaotic situation in the Sudanese capital. The commander of the Sudanese Army, Abdelfatá al Burhan, informed the Al Hadath chain this morning that the international airport is still under dispute with the RSF and local journalists present in the capital have spent hours reporting sporadic shootings in the capital and sister cities of North Khartoum and Omdurman.

Al Burhan has assured that countries such as China, France or the United Kingdom will begin their evacuation in the next few hours after receiving security guarantees from the Army, but so far none of these countries has made an official statement.

In this sense, British government sources have indicated to the Press Association and DPA that the country's prime minister, Rishi Sunak, has held an emergency meeting with his security committee in recent hours, although the evacuation of its citizens "still It's not imminent."

In fact, the Saudi evacuation process has consisted of the transfer of the nationals to Port Sudan, where they have left the country by boat, the same route that, according to Al Burhan himself, the citizens of the Hashemite kingdom will take. The port is in the extreme east of the country, 840 kilometers from the capital.

The United States Embassy in Sudan has warned this afternoon that the situation continues to be extremely dangerous after confirming "clashes and shots" in the capital, as well as "reports of assaults, looting and home invasions."

For this reason, and "given the uncertain security situation in Khartoum and the closure of the airport," the US Embassy believes that right now it is impossible to undertake a coordinated evacuation operation from Khartoum.

The information available to Washington about the other international convoys that have headed for Port Sudan is "incomplete," the embassy argues, and warns that any US citizen who joins these delegations "will do so at their own risk." .