On Wednesday, the Sudan crisis persisted with the country’s former President, who had been ousted from power
The Ambassador of Sudan to India stated that they had evacuated most diplomatic missions during the partial ceasefire that had been in place for the last few days, and they were currently carrying out the evacuation of civilians.
It is believed that there are around 3,000 Indians in Sudan. Out which the government’s Operation Kaveri has evacuated more than 600 people so far.
Fighting between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has killed hundreds of people, injured thousands more and triggered an exodus of citizens to neighbouring nations, as per media reports.
Over 660 Indians have been evacuated from the crisis-hit African nation so far, with 250 people being taken to Jeddah in Saudia Arabia via Indian Air Force (IAF) aircraft and 278 people on Navy’s INS Sumedha. Another batch of 135 Indians landed in Jeddah today morning.
Sudanese envoy Abdalla Omer Bashir Elhusain said that the process is proceeding smoothly so far.
Elhusain detailed the challenges before the officials, telling ANI that security is being provided to those traversing the distance between the capital city of Khartoum to Port Sudan, which is the base for the evacuations.
“The evacuation operation started from Port Sudan. A number of estimated 300-500 Indian citizens have been evacuated by ship and other evacuation processes are going on. The evacuation process is a very sensitive process due to the political situation, due to the violation of the ceasefire,” he said.