In addition, ten Greeks were released from custody. Sudanthis time with her help Italyinformed Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias.

According to his Twitter post, the Greeks and their families are in Djibouti and are in good health.

Another 10 Greeks and their family members from Sudan who are already in Djibouti have been released, this time with the help of Italy. All are in good health.

— Nikos Dendias (@NikosDendias) April 24, 2023

Let us recall that, as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported yesterday, the first group of Greek citizens, including two wounded, left Sudan with the assistance of France. The two wounded were taken to Djibouti, from where they will travel to Greece via Egypt, where two Greek transport planes are already stationed. In total, 18 Greeks were released from the African country yesterday and today.

For these developments This was announced by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis.reports the Foreign Ministry.

In Djibouti He is the Greek Ambassador to Ethiopia. and to the honorary consul of our country in Djibouti for receiving specific Greek citizens and providing any assistance.

He added that during today’s meeting of the Foreign Affairs Council, Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias would express gratitude to his Italian counterpart Antonio Tajani for Italy’s significant assistance in releasing the aforementioned Greeks from Sudan.

“The process and coordination with EU partners and allies to release the remaining Greeks and their family members is ongoing,” he concludes.

Mass evacuation continues

Meanwhile, a large-scale operation to expel foreign citizens from Sudan which over the past week has been torn apart by clashes between the official army and paramilitaries.

In some cases, these operations are carried out by air, although some countries still prefer to evacuate their citizens by sea, through Port Sudan on the Red Sea, 800 km from Khartoum.

Conflicts centered primarily in Khartoum and Darfur have claimed the lives of more than 420 people and 3,700 injured.

USA

US President Joe Biden announced late on Saturday that the country’s military “conducted an operation to withdraw American diplomatic personnel from Khartoum.”

About 100 special forces soldiers took part in the operation, during which “a little less than 100” people, including several foreign diplomats, were evacuated from the Sudanese capital by helicopter.

“At the moment” there are no plans to expel other American citizens who are in Sudan and are estimated to number in the hundreds.

EU countries

A European official explained on Friday that the EU is expanding its contacts in order to achieve a ceasefire and be able to evicts about 1,500 European citizens who were in Sudan. In addition to the EU, whose delegation is in Khartoum, seven countries – France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Greece and the Czech Republic – have embassies in the Sudanese capital.

According to Paris, yesterday, Sunday, two French aircraft landed in Djibouti, carrying a total of 200 people from Sudan, French and foreigners.

According to the Prime Minister of Georgia Meloni, on the same day, Italy expelled all its citizens, “asking to leave” and “foreigners.”

In total, Rome took off “about 200 people.”

A “handful” of Dutch people were evacuated by French aircraft, while another group of their compatriots left Khartoum by road as part of a UN convoy, said Dutch Foreign Minister Wopke Hoekstra, who was hoping for another evacuation operation later that day.

Hoekstra spoke of “a particularly difficult case”.

OUR german army announced that it had evacuated 101 people by military aircraft, while specifying that two more aircraft had been sent to evacuate.