Sudan

An Indian national from Odisha has been abducted by rebel forces amid the ongoing civil war in Sudan, according to reports on Monday, November 3. Sudan’s Ambassador to India, Mohammed Abdalla Ali Eltom, confirmed that his government is in…
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Twenty years after the world vowed “never again” following mass killings in Sudan’s Darfur region, history is repeating itself, UN refugee chief Filippo Grandi told AFP. Since April 2023, fighting between Sudan’s army and the paramilitary…
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The Indian Air Force (IAF) alone has brought back around 1,400 Indian citizens from war-hit Sudan over the past few days, ever since India began ‘Operation Kaveri’ last week. The IAF informed that two C-130 J aircraft have evacuated 260…
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Sudan’s rival military forces accused each other of fresh violations of a ceasefire that is set to expire on Sunday as their deadly conflict continued for a third week despite warnings of a slide towards catastrophic civil war. Hundreds of…
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The 10th batch with 135 Indian citizens, who were stranded in conflict-ridden Sudan, have successfully departed from Port Sudan on an IAF C 130J flight, said the ministry of external affairs (MEA) said on Friday morning. They are headed…
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The Sudanese army pounded paramilitaries in the capital Khartoum with air strikes Thursday while deadly fighting flared in Darfur, as a fragile US-brokered ceasefire entered its final hours. Ahead of the expiry of a three-day truce at…
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The second batch of 246 Indian nationals stuck in war-torn Sudan arrived in Mumbai from Saudi Arabia’s Jeddah on Thursday. The Indian Air Force’s C-17 Globemaster heavy lift aircraft has brought back the Indian nationals to their…
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Clutching overstuffed suitcases, bleary-eyed civilians described a harrowing escape from violence-wracked Sudan across the Red Sea to Saudi Arabia, sobbing at memories of air strikes and urban combat. Wheelchair-bound elderly women and…
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Japan has safely evacuated 45 people from Sudan, including citizens, their spouses and children, the Foreign Ministry said in a statement Tuesday, adding it has closed its embassy in the country. The group was flown to Djibouti from Port…
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The Sudanese army said Saturday it was coordinating efforts to evacuate diplomats from the United States, Britain, China and France out of the country on military airplanes, as fighting persisted in the capital, including at its main…
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