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Rescue operations to extract foreigners from Sudan

Saudi Arabia is leading the first reported successful evacuation with naval operations picking up more than 150 people including foreign diplomats and officials from Port Sudan on Saturday.

US military sent three Chinook helicopters to evacuate American embassy staff from Khartoum.

Around 100 people of multiple nationalities have been evacuated from Sudan on a first French flight out of the country after a “complicated” rescue operation, a French foreign ministry official said on Sunday.

Britain is evacuating UK embassy staff and their families from Sudan, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said.

Turkey began operations at dawn on Sunday, taking some of its estimated 600 nationals by road from two Khartoum districts and the southern city of Wad Madani.

EU, Germany, Italy, Greece, Netherlands – The European Union said Friday it was “trying to coordinate an operation to get our civilians out of the city which is now in a high-risk situation”.

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