20h10 : What is the situation in Sudan? More than a week following the start of fighting in Sudan on April 15, the country is plunged into chaos. The human toll, still very provisional, amounts to more than 420 dead and 3,700 injured, according to estimates from the WorldHealth Organization released yesterday. We take stock in this article.
20h06 : “There is a lull. But there are still clashes. So that supposes a time of planning. Then, a regrouping of our compatriots and then, finally, an evacuation, which is in progress, which has begun.”
The Minister of Foreign Affairs provided details on the evacuation procedure for French nationals who are in Sudan.
20h04 : “We opened a crisis unit to get in touch with each of our compatriots, locate them, find out what their situation is. And then the decision to evacuate was taken by the President of the Republic. It is an operation that is complex”explains Catherine Colonna, the Minister of Foreign Affairs.
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19h56 : ???? The fighting between the regular army led by Abdel Fattah al-Burhane and the paramilitaries of Mohamed Hamdan Daglo’s Rapid Support Forces has already claimed hundreds of victims, according to the WHO. We explain the reasons for these clashes. https://t.co/hxA0fechjK
19h56 : Why is Sudan torn apart by a civil war? We summarize the situation for you with this topic.
19h11 : Sudan is in the throes of violent clashes. A first plane repatriating our compatriots, European nationals and other countries, has just landed in Djibouti. I salute the mobilization of our armies and the agents of the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs. https://t.co/DP6kIonCV9
19h11 :Emmanuel Macron “greet” on Twitter “the mobilization of our armies and agents of the Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs” to evacuate French nationals (and other nationalities).
18h02 : The ambassador should be the last to leave, leaving only one correspondent locally. For those who live in the most remote areas, there are two solutions according to former Colonel Peer De Jong: “Either the people are independent and cross the border, which is complicated because the Chadian border is closed at the time I am speaking to you, or there is an extraction. It is military forces who will look for the stranded nationals”.
17h55 : “We are in the final phase of the operation” in Sudan, explains on franceinfo the former colonel Peer De Jong, vice-president of the Themiis institute and specialist in geopolitics. “For a few dayshe develops, the French nationals were grouped together in islands, then all of these islands went to an assembly point, generally the embassy, and then they waited for the evacuation. We are today in this extremely particular moment when we must go either to an airport or to a port: the people of Khartoum will go to Khartoum airport and those of Port-Sudan to the port.
16h52 : The Ministry of Foreign Affairs announces that a hundred French nationals and other nationalities have already been evacuated from Sudan by France. A hundred others should follow, specifies the Quai d’Orsay.
16h31 : The two tweets (in German) from the German Foreign Ministry are ici et To be.
16h26 : “Our objective is to evacuate by air as many nationals as possible. [allemands] of Khartoum, given the dangerous situation in Sudan. Where possible, we will also take EU nationals and other countries”write on Twitter two German ministries: that of Defense and that of Foreign Affairs.
16h20 : The German Minister of Defense announces that Germany has started the evacuation of its nationals.
16h09 : France and the United Kingdom are not the only countries to activate. Italy has also launched an operation to evacuate its nationals, as well as Swiss nationals and members of the Holy See’s embassy in Sudan. “In total, our soldiers will take care of regarding 200 people”said Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani.
15h19 : Are you waiting for your French relatives who must be evacuated from Sudan, currently the scene of violent fighting? Your testimony interests the national “19/20” of France 3! If you agree to testify, as part of an interview on Skype for tonight’s news, you can write to the address [email protected].
14h47 : London has evacuated its diplomatic staff from the country, shaken by heavy fighting. “British Armed Forces have carried out a complex and rapid evacuation of British diplomats and their families from Sudan, amid escalating violence and threats once morest embassy staff,” tweeted Rishi Sunak, the British prime minister.
13h28 : “Unfortunately the situation remains serious in Sudan, which is why I renew my call for the violence to end as soon as possible and for the path of dialogue to be resumed.”
The sovereign pontiff made this appeal during his traditional Sunday prayer in public, in St. Peter’s Square, in Rome, while deadly battles between the army and paramilitaries have been raging for more than a week in Sudan.
12h17 : Italy will also try to evacuate its nationals present in Sudan. “The government is putting in place a repatriation plan to secure our fellow citizens who are at the moment” on the spot, declared the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Maria Tripodi, on the Tgcom24 channel. Turkey has also signaled a similar intention.
11h25 : “We ask the belligerents to respect the medical infrastructures”.
The researcher appeals to the country, torn apart by armed conflict for a week. He pleads for “allow teams to move and take care of the injured”, specifying that there are no French people on site for MSF and that their teams are “largely Sudanese”.
11h57 : Bonjour @Tom, thank you for your question. Anne-Claire Legendre, spokesperson for the Quai d’Orsay, gave details to franceinfo. The operation aims to “close the embassy [de France]”. It will make it possible to evacuate European diplomatic personnel more broadly, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said a little earlier this morning. France can rely on its armed forces deployed in the region, including in Djibouti, added Anne-Claire Legendre.
10:00 a.m : Hello, can we take stock of the current French operations in Sudan?
11h57 : “Our goal is to be as fast as possible”.
The French community in Sudan counts “250 people”, according to Anne-Claire Legendre, while France today began an operation to evacuate its nationals and diplomatic personnel. “But all of the nationals do not want to leave the country”, she explains, for example because of family ties there.
