Saudi Arabia has confirmed it had evacuated over 150 people from Sudan on Saturday.
Diplomats and nationals from the UK, US, France and China are to be evacuated from Sudan by air as fighting there continues, a statement from the Sudanese army says.
Army chief Fattah al-Burhan agreed to facilitate and secure their evacuation “in the coming hours”, it said.
In Nigeria, the Federal Government has set up a committee to facilitate the rescue of its citizens from that country.
Head of Press Unit, National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Manzo Ezekiel said the committee consists of professional emergency responders as well as search and rescue experts.
According to the NEMA official, the agency is working with other relevant bodies and stakeholders, including the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Nigerian Embassy in Khartoum, Sudan, the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM), and security agencies “while seeking for an appropriate window of opportunity to evacuate all stranded Nigerians back home in a safe and dignified manner”.
Fierce street battles erupted in Khartoum on 15 April after disagreements emerged between the leaders of both sides – General Burhan and the RSF’s Mohamed Hamdan “Hemedti” Dagalo – over how Sudan should be run.
They both held top positions in Sudan’s current military government, formed after the 2019 coup that ousted long-time leader Omar al-Bashir.
They were supposed to merge their forces but the RSF resisted this change, mobilising its troops which escalated into full-scale fighting last week.
The World Health Organization says more than 400 people have been killed. The death toll is believed to be much higher as people struggle to reach hospitals.
