As the fighting sparks fears that Sudan is plunged into chaos, foreign governments are rushing to get their citizens out of the country. Many countries have deployed military transports to get their citizens out, including France, which used its airbase in neighboring Djibouti.
But not everything has gone well: about 2,000 Britons remain in Sudanand many people complain that their governments are not giving them the necessary information about evacuation plans.
Here’s a country-by-country breakdown of ongoing evacuations, Based on the information available to date:
USA:
US special forces used helicopters Sunday morning to remove 70 embassy employees from the capital Khartoum. The US government has warned some 16,000 citizens in Sudan that they must make their own arrangements and that there will be no mass evacuations.
UNITED KINGDOM: Some 1,200 British soldiers taking part in an operation at a British base in Cyprus helped evacuate some 30 diplomatic staff and their families. Arrangements are underway to move them from Cyprus back to Britain.
The Minister for the Middle East, Andrew Mitchell, reported that some 2,000 British citizens are registered at the embassy and that “intensive planning” is underway for “a series of possible evacuations.”
FRANCE: France removed 388 people — including citizens of 28 countries in Europe, Africa, Asia and North America — on four flights to Djibouti, in the Horn of Africa.
GERMANY: Three German military planes moved to 311 people from Sudan to Jordan from where they will go to their respective countries. The German Foreign Ministry reported on Monday that almost half of those 311 people were foreigners. The dpa news agency reported that there were among them citizens of Australia, Bulgaria, the United Kingdom, Belgium, Norway, the Czech Republic, Ireland, Sweden, Portugal. Austria said 27 of those people were Austrian citizens.
ITALY: Italian air force C-130 planes transported some 200 people from Khartoum to Djibouti on Sunday. Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said that among them there were 140 Italians apart from Swissother Europeans and staff from the Vatican embassy in Khartoum.
SPAIN: Spain reported that it had evacuated approximately 172 people from Khartoum to Djibouti, including 34 Spanish citizens in addition to citizens of Argentina, Colombia, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, Portugal and Poland.
SWEDEN AND DENMARK:Sweden reported that 25 employees of its embassy and their families were among the 388 evacuated by French planes to Djibouti.. Denmark said 15 of its citizens were in that group.
FINLAND:Finnish Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto tweeted that 10 Finns had been evacuated from Khartoum, including children. He added that there are ongoing efforts to evacuate other citizens. who remain in the Sudanese capital.
POLAND: The Polish Foreign Ministry reported that 11 of its citizens —including its ambassador, diplomatic staff and private citizens— They were evacuated with help from France and Spain.
HOLLAND: A Dutch air force C-130 Hercules plane left Sudan for Jordan on Monday morning carrying citizens of various countries, including the Netherlands. Exact figures have not been released.
Türkiye: The Turkish government said it is evacuating “hundreds” of its citizens overland to Ethiopia, from where they will be transferred to Istanbul.
GREECE: The Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that 15 Greek citizens and their families have been evacuated to Djibouti with the help of Italy.
JAPAN: Japan said transport planes will be sent from Djibouti to Sudan to evacuate Japanese nationals once preparations are made. Government Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno said on Monday the planes would be sent to an undisclosed location inside Sudan to evacuate people.
JORDAN: Some 343 Jordanian citizens Evacuees from Port Sudan arrived at a military base in Amman aboard four aircraft.
EGYPT: Egypt’s state news agency MENA reported that the country has asked the more than 10,000 of their citizens in Sudan to go to the consular offices in Port Sudan and Wadi Halfa, in the north, for evacuation. Buses with an unspecified number of Egyptian citizens crossed into Egypt via the Arqin border crossing on Monday.