Khartoum (EFE) .- All the countries continue to evacuate their citizens from Sudan after a Sunday in which the repatriation operations have been taking place, with the interruption of the internet connection and at a time when the fifth truce since the beginning of the conflict is already over.
A first plane of the German Air Force landed this morning at the Berlin airport with 101 evacuees from Sudan, mainly staff from its embassy, their families and also citizens of other nationalities, according to sources from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
For its part, France has repatriated 388 people from Sudan in four flights that took place between Sunday and the early hours of Monday, fleeing the conflict in the country.
Italy has also evacuated 105 Italian citizens and another 31 of other nationalities to Djibouti, from where today they will be repatriated to Rome, thanks to an operation coordinated by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, with the collaboration of Defense and the support of the Intelligence Services. .
Spain evacuates 30 Spaniards and another 70 civilians
In the case of Spain, there have been around thirty nationals and another 70 European and Latin American citizens who have been able to leave Khartoum, the capital of Sudan, bound for Djibouti after an operation coordinated by the Spanish Ministries of Foreign Affairs, the European Union and Cooperation, and Defense.
The Spanish Foreign Minister himself, Jose Manuel Albares, confirmed on Twitter the takeoff of the Air Force planes.
The Spanish military plane took off from Khartoum shortly before 9:00 p.m. GMT on Sunday, with around a hundred passengers of eight nationalities (Portuguese, Italian, Polish, Irish, Mexican, Venezuelan, Colombian and Argentine), as well as Spanish. and Sudanese.
José Manuel Albares and Defense Minister Margarita Robles have been in constant contact to ensure the success of the operation in Sudan, where clashes between the Sudanese Army and the Rapid Support Forces (FAR) paramilitary group continue.
Despite this, another group of Spaniards decided, voluntarily, to remain in Sudan or leave it by other means, while others had managed to leave the country before the implementation of this device.
No internet connection
Today the African country continues with virtually no internet access. “Sudan remains largely offline in the midst of an internet blackout, with connectivity at 2% of ordinary levels,” NetBlocks, a platform that monitors user access and online censorship, said in his account. Twitter official.
According to Netblocks, the military has accused the paramilitary group Rapid Support Forces (FAR) of sabotaging telecommunications networks this morning, including Sudani, the country’s main operator.
Yesterday was the first day since the bloody conflict began – which has already caused more than 420 deaths – that internet access really collapsed, although there have been connection failures linked to the lack of fuel for the generators.
The fighting that began on April 15 between the Sudanese Army and the FAR arose after weeks of tension over the reform of the security forces in the negotiations they are holding to form a new transitional government.
Both forces were the architects of the joint coup that overthrew the transitional government of Sudan in October 2021.