Multiple evacuation efforts to save foreign nationals or embassy employees have been launched as a result of fighting in Sudan.
Heavy battle has taken place at Khartoum’s main airport, which is now under the control of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) fighting the army.
A few people are being evacuated from Port Sudan on the Red Sea, which is about 850 kilometres (530 miles) away from Khartoum.
Here is a summary of what several countries were doing to transport stranded nationals to safety.
Saudi Arabia
With naval operations picking up more than 150 people, including foreign diplomats and officials from Port Sudan on Saturday, Saudi Arabia took the lead in the first reported successful evacuation.
In addition to 66 nationals from 12 other nations, including Kuwait, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Tunisia, Pakistan, India, Bulgaria, Bangladesh, the Philippines, Canada, and Burkina Faso, Riyadh also confirmed the “safe arrival” of 91 Saudi residents.
United States
The American embassy staff in Khartoum was evacuated by three Chinook helicopters supplied by the US military on Sunday.
Less than 100 individuals were saved by more than 100 US troops, who flew helicopters from Djibouti to Sudan via Ethiopia and Sudan, where they landed for less than an hour.
It is estimated that a few thousand US citizens, including dual nationalities, are still there.
France
A French foreign ministry spokesman reported on Sunday that approximately 100 people of various nationalities had been flown out of Sudan on a first French flight, with a second flight carrying an additional 100 people scheduled to depart Sunday evening.
Britain
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced in a tweet that the British army had evacuated the personnel and their families from the UK embassy in a “complex and rapid” operation.
Turkey
At first light on Sunday, Ankara began transporting some of its 600 estimated citizens from two Khartoum districts and the southern city of Wad Madani via road.
However, after “explosions” close to a mosque chosen as the assembly venue, plans from one site in Khartoum were postponed, the embassy reported.
EU, Germany, Sweden, the Netherlands, Italy, and Greece
According to the European Union, there have been “efforts to coordinate” evacuations. In Sudan, there are seven EU missions.
A “handful” of Dutch citizens were evacuated aboard a French plane, according to the foreign minister of the Netherlands, Wopke Hoekstra, while another group left Khartoum on foot in a UN convoy.
Following a failed attempt to transfer 150 Germans on Wednesday, the defence and foreign ministries tweeted on Sunday that Germany had started evacuating citizens.
“140 to 150” soldiers were mobilized, according to Sweden’s defense minister, who told AFP on Sunday, to evacuate diplomats and other Swedish nationals.
Antonio Tajani, the foreign minister of Italy, said the military operation to remove “about 200 people” on Sunday will include Italians, Swiss, and Vatican officials.
A first group of refugees “left Sudan with the assistance of France,” according to the Greek foreign ministry.
According to a statement from the foreign ministry, the Irish government is sending 12 defence officers to Djibouti to assist with the evacuation of 150 nationals from Sudan.
Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Egypt, Jordan, Tunisia
The foreign ministry of Egypt earlier stated that over 10,000 Egyptians reside in the adjoining country; however, on Sunday it was reported that 436 persons had been evacuated by land.
The ministry stated that a member of Cairo’s diplomatic delegation had previously been shot without providing any other information. The military of Egypt removed 177 of its soldiers from Sudan on Wednesday.
Sinan Majali, a spokesman for the Jordanian foreign ministry, stated on Saturday that Amman had started the evacuation of about 300 Jordanians, adding that there was “continuous cooperation with the UAE and Saudi Arabia.”
According to Ahmed al-Sahhaf, a spokesman for the foreign ministry, members of the Iraqi embassy departed Khartoum on Saturday, while 14 nationals landed in Port Sudan on Sunday. Without providing any other information, Sahhaf told AFP on Sunday that an Iraqi had died in Khartoum “as a result of recent events.”
Prior to their evacuation by sea, 60 civilians, according to Lebanon, had also evacuated Khartoum by road.
On Friday, the Libyan embassy in Khartoum announced that 83 Libyans had been transported to Port Sudan after being evacuated from the capital.
After several individuals departed the country aboard Saudi ships, the Tunisian embassy has announced an evacuation operation scheduled for Monday to remove citizens still inside the nation.
South Korea, China, India, Japan, and Indonesia
South Korea and Japan, two other foreign nations preparing evacuations, have sent troops to surrounding nations.
According to a statement from the foreign ministry, India said it had two air force jets “on standby” in Saudi Arabia and a navy ship had landed in Port Sudan, but any evacuations “would depend on the security situation”.
According to reports, the Sudanese army is also coordinating operations to remove diplomats from China.
Indonesia said 43 citizens were sheltering inside the embassy compound in Khartoum.
