The evacuation of Western diplomats in Sudan continues more than a week after tension erupted between the Sudanese Army and the Rapid Support Forces (FAR) causing chaos in the streets. For now, the special forces team that Spain has sent to Djibouti to rescue Spanish diplomats and civilians trapped in Sudan still waiting for a safe space to land.

For now, Spain has special troops units in Djibouti and armored vehicles waiting to evacuate some 60 Spaniards and 20 of other nationalities.

Although the capital’s airport is still unusable, The United States has rescued tonight the few hundred diplomats that he kept in Khartoum with 3 special forces helicopters: it has been a trip of 800 kilometers one way and 800 kilometers back between Ethiopia and Khartoum, where they have had to refuel several times with MC-130 Hercules planes.

For its part, France would be using a base near the airport to try to evacuate its diplomats. Just this morning, your convoy was attacked that has caused at least one injury.

In Khartoum, the situation is increasingly desperate. The alternative to air evacuation is the sea route to Saudi Arabia, where about 150 people have already left. Specifically, from Port Sudan to Jeddah. Although to get there from Khartoum, the country’s capital, you have to travel 1,300 kilometers.

Papa has called for a ceasefire today, but the fighting between the troops of the two opposing generals continues. At the moment, more than 400 people have already died.