Difficult to secure military aircraft landing spots in Sudan for evacuation: PM
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says it’s not easy for Canada to arrange a landing spot in Sudan to evacuate citizens by Canadian military aircraft.
The ceasefire is helping evacuation efforts, she said. Some are leaving by themselves through neighbouring countries. Canada has been flying military aircraft into Djibouti, a country on the Horn of Africa about 1,200 km by air from the Sudanese capital of Khartoum. But flight-tracking websites have not recorded any instances of Royal Canadian Airforce planes entering Sudan itself.
One of Canada’s CC-177 Globemaster heavy lift aircraft landed in Djibouti on Saturday and then on Monday it returned to Glasgow Prestwick Airport.
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