OTTAWA — Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly says Canada has no means of evacuating citizens from Sudan, where violence has drastically escalated between the…
The U.S. and other countries anticipate the violence to escalate, and are preparing to evacuate their citizens in Sudan. That’s despite warring groups preventing the flow of people out of Khartoum, and fighting at numerous airports.
Khartoum residents are running out of food and water. Alarm has grown that the country’s medical system was on the verge of collapse, with many hospitals forced to shut down and others running out of supplies. Bob Rae, Canada’s ambassador to the United Nations, said the sudden deterioration in Sudan is “an object lesson for all of us” about the issues that produce insecurity and conflict.
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