They just arrived five more Greeks from Sudan in Djibouti, on an Italian military flight, according to Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Greece.

“The process and actions to release our compatriots and their family members from this country are ongoing, always in close coordination with partners in the EU. and our allies,” the ministry said in a statement.

Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias thanked his colleagues in Italy, Germany and France for their country’s assistance in the operation to free the Greeks and their families from Sudan.

Recall that, as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported yesterday, the first group of Greek citizens, including two injured, left Sudan on Sunday afternoon with the assistance of France. This morning, another group of ten citizens released from a warring country was announced.

Evacuation continues

Meanwhile, a large-scale operation to expel foreign citizens from Sudanwhich in 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 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 evict the remaining US citizens in Sudan, who are estimated to number in the hundreds.

EU countries

A European official explained on Friday that the EU is increasing its contacts to secure a truce and evicts about 1,500 European citizens who were in Sudan. In addition to the EU, which has a representation 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.

On the same day, Italy expelled all its citizens “who asked to leave” and “foreign citizens”, according to the Prime Minister of Georgia Meloni.

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

A “handful” of Dutch citizens were evacuated on a French plane, while another group of their compatriots left Khartoum by ground transport in a UN convoy, said Dutch Foreign Minister Wopke Hoekstra, who was hoping for another evacuation later in the 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.