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An overview of states' evacuations of citizens stranded in Sudan

Sudan rescue missions

People on April 26, 2023 disembark a plane from Djibouti after being evacuated from Sudan, at Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle airport in Roissy-en-France, near Paris. Some 245 French and foreign nationals landed at the airport in a plane chartered by the French authorities. PHOTO | JULIEN DE ROSA | AFP

By  AFP

Multiple nations have scrambled to evacuate embassy staff and citizens by road, air and sea from chaos-torn Sudan, where fighting between the army and paramilitaries has killed hundreds.

Rescue operations intensified Tuesday as a 72-hour ceasefire took effect, but gunfire still rang out in Khartoum.

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