The minister of Foreign Affairs, European Union and CooperationJosé Manuel Albares, has indicated that the Government has ready military aircrafts to proceed with the evacuation of the Spanish found in sudan once the conditions for it are met. Likewise, he has advanced that they are trying to concentrate them all in the Embassy with a view to their possible exfiltration.

At a press conference in Berlin together with her German counterpart, Annalena Baerbock, both have appealed to the warring parties, the Sudanese Army and Paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF)to accept a ceasefire that allows both the evacuation of foreigners from the country and the delivery of humanitarian aid that the population needs.

“We have everything ready”, indicated the minister, who specified that “there are Army military aircraft ready to proceed with the evacuation when the conditions are met and they can land” in Khartoum, something that is not yet possible, and he is in constant contact with the minister of Defense, Margarita Robles.

As stated, it would proceed to evacuate about 60 Spaniards as well as another twenty people, including European citizens and from countries of Latin America that they have requested it. To facilitate this process once a “window of opportunity” is given, the regrouping of the Spaniards at the Embassy is already underway. “The conditions are difficult,” he admitted, stressing that fighting continues and Khartoum airport is closed.

“As soon as we have the opportunity, our military planes will enter Sudan and evacuate our colony,” stressed the minister, who has reported that in fact a Spaniard who was on board a ship off the coast of Sudan has already managed to be evacuated to another country. Likewise, he has once again asked those Spaniards who could be in the country and have not registered with the Embassy or their relatives to contact the Ministry to transfer their situation in view of the eventual evacuation.

Call for a ceasefire

The minister has defended that the “completely sterile violence” that began last Saturday “has to stop,” a message Baerbock has also repeated. “The situation is dramatic and in practice the population has been trapped since the fighting broke out”, he stressed, stressing that “crossing the door poses a risk of death”. “We demand that the two responsible generals end senseless violencecease fire, allow evacuations and that the population receive the humanitarian aid it needs,” he demanded, addressing the head of the Army, Abdelfatá al Burhan, and the commander of the RSF, Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, alias ‘Hemedti’.

In this sense, he has encouraged both to resolve conflict through negotiation “instead of reducing Sudan to rubble”. The German minister, like Albares, has supported the mediation efforts being carried out by different actors, such as the African Union, IGAD or the UN with a view to achieving a 72-hour ceasefire on the occasion of the end of the Ramadan this weekend.