Due to the ongoing violence between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, Somalia has started evacuating individuals who are stuck in Sudan. On Wednesday, 18 Somali nationals who had been evacuated from Buluja, close to the border between Sudan and South Sudan, arrived at the Aden Adde Airport in Mogadishu. The government of Somalia is making every effort to ensure that its residents can return home safely, according to Abdirahman Nur Dinari, the country’s acting permanent secretary of foreign affairs.
Other African nations, including Kenya and Djibouti, have started to evacuate their residents as combat in Sudan continues. While Djibouti is attempting to evacuate its people and diplomatic personnel, Kenya is working to evacuate over 400 kids.
Following the declaration of a new truce, the Somali government is planning to evacuate 500 more Somalis from Sudan and bring them to Mogadishu on Wednesday. 200 citizens are still stuck in Sudan, where fighting may lead to more internal and international emigration, and efforts are being made to repatriate them.
Nur thanked the Somali embassies in Sudan, South Sudan, and Ethiopia for helping to evacuate those who were stuck in Sudan as a result of confrontations between the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF). He also expressed gratitude to the governments of South Sudan for facilitating the travel of Somalis and Kenya for receiving 19 Somalis from Khartoum, the capital of Sudan.
Hotlines for Somalis trapped in Sudan have recently been established by the Somali Disaster Management Agency (SODMA). Somalis can report their locations to the 24-hour hotlines to facilitate the evacuation process.
The three-day truce is intended to create humanitarian corridors, enabling inhabitants and residents to access basic services, secure areas, and healthcare while diplomatic missions are evacuated. Over 400 people have died and 3,000 people have been injured as a result of the turmoil in Sudan, according to the World Health Organization.
The largest rescue operation by the Gulf nation to date culminated on Wednesday with the arrival of Saudi Arabia of a boat carrying 1,687 civilians from more than 50 nations who were escaping unrest in Sudan. 2,148 individuals, including more than 2,000 foreigners, have already been evacuated from Sudan to Saudi Arabia.
Germany, the UK, and France have all participated in evacuation operations. The British airlift rescued 200 to 300 people from Sudan, and France evacuated 184 French citizens and their families along with roughly 20 persons of other countries. Over 700 people, including about 200 Germans, were evacuated before Germany stopped its program.