Sudan War: 77 Ghanaians To Be Evacuated To Ethiopia Today

Two batches of Ghanaians in Khartoum, Sudan’s capital, have been moved to safety in Gedaref, a city in Eastern Sudan, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration has announced.

The batches made up of 50 and 27 identified Ghanaians were moved there by Ghana’s Mission in Cairo, the Honorary Consul in Khartoum and Ghanaian student leaders in Sudan.

They comprise 34 females and 43 males.

The evacuees will today, April 26 be evacuated to the Ethiopian border town Metema for their final journey to Ghana.

Meanwhile, five other Ghanaians including three footballers and two workers with an Australian Mining Company in Sudan are also being evacuated through the Egyptian border post of Wadi Halfa, north of Sudan, according to the Ministry.

In all 82 Ghanaians are in safety awaiting evacuation, per a statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

It also put out the contact details of Ghana’s Honorary Consul to assist in their evacuation.

Conflict erupted on March 15 between Sudan’s de facto Armed Forces and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).

So far, it has been reported that 459 people including civilians and foreign nationals have been killed in the conflict.

Countries including France, the United Kingdom and the United States of America began evacuating their nationals from Sudan on April 23 beginning with their diplomats and their families.

The evacuation continued on Monday for all their nationals, according to reports.

African students in Sudan are reported to be stranded.

In a video recording, a Nigerian student by the name Abdulaziz confirmed that students have been directed to take cover at the International University of Africa in Khartoum, the capital of Sudan where the war is concentrated.

He said only Africans are left at the shelter with the majority of them being Nigerians.

Aside from there, other students are taking cover in hostels, malls and others.

But he said European, American and Asian countries have evacuated all their nationals from the country.

Amid fears of losing their lives, students also have to deal with food and water shortages.

“We are calling on those agencies and the governments that are responsible for the students of each nationality that they should redouble their efforts to evacuate the people because people are scared, people are hungry, people are thirsty,” he pleaded.