The government has safely evacuated a total of 300 Ugandans who were trapped in Sudan’s capital Khartoum and surrounding places, following the ongoing unrest that has left at least 400 people dead and 3000 others badly injured.
According to the Ugandan ambassador to Sudan Rashid Yahya Ssemuddu , the government hired six buses to transport them out of Sudan via Ethiopia before they are flown back home.
“We have hired six buses to accommodate a number of all the three hundred Ugandans including diplomats, students, workers and those who were on transit to mecca.This is through the Ethiopian route of Khartom, Aljazera, madani, Alqadarif to the border with Ethiopia, ” he said on Sunday.
In a latest statement released on Monday, the Uganda Embassy in Khartom affirms that on Monday at 11:00 am , Ugandans aboard the buses were safely out of danger and at Al Gadarif.
It reads: “We have successfully got out the 300 Ugandans who were trapped in the Khartoum crisis. The Ugandans are now safely out of danger at location Al Gadarif, smoothly progressing to Ethiopian Boarder, this location is about 415 Km out of Khartoum, the epicenter of the RSF/ SAR Conflicts and the Volatile war situation.”
Fighting in Sudan between the forces of two rival generals erupted on April 15, in the capital, Khartoum, and elsewhere between troops loyal to army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and Mohamed “Hemedti” Hamdan Daglo, commander of the powerful paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
Analysts warn the conflict could draw in foreign armed groups and regional powers, and may have far-reaching consequences, not only for the northeast African country but also for an already unstable region.
