A German air force plane with 101 people evacuated from Sudan landed in Berlin early on Monday. Read more at straitstimes.com.
KHARTOUM - A German air force plane with 101 people evacuated from Sudan landed in Berlin early on Monday, as countries rushed to extract their citizens from Khartoum amidSweden said that all its embassy staff in Khartoum, their families and an unspecified number of other Swedes had been evacuated to nearby Djibouti.
Several evacuations are by air. Others are via Port Sudan on the Red Sea, which is about 650km north-east of Khartoum, but is about 800km by road. The Foreign Ministry did not say how many people were rescued but said the evacuees were in good health, with two people on their way to neighbouring Ethiopia and the rest evacuated to Djibouti with help from France.
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