Planes with Spaniards and Latin Americans evacuated from Sudan take off

Planes with Spaniards and Latin Americans evacuated from Sudan take off

The Air Force planes that have flown to Djibouti to evacuate some 80 people, including Spaniards, Europeans and South Americans, who are trapped in Sudanhave taken off this Sunday night from the Sudanese capital, as reported by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation, José Manuel Albares.

“The Air Force planes with our citizens and the Spanish Embassy in Sudan on board have just taken off from Khartoum. Other European and Latin American citizens also travel. No incident in the transfer of our convoy”, the minister has published on the social network Twitter.

Albares has also called “for a ceasefire and to resume dialogue in Sudan,” reported Agencia EFE.

The fighting that began on April 15 between the Sudanese Army and the Rapid Support Forces (FAR) paramilitary group arose after weeks of tension around the reform of the security forces in the negotiations to form a new transitional government.

Both forces were the architects of the joint coup that overthrew the transitional government of Sudan in October 2021.

Since the outbreak of the conflict, according to the account offered this Friday by According to the World Health Organization (WHO), at least 413 people have died and 3,551 have been injured in Sudanrecalled the EFE Agency.

Source: Gestion

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