JEDDAH: A ship carrying 37 Pakistani nationals from war-torn Sudan has reached Saudi Arabia’s Jeddah as fighting between the army and paramilitaries killed and wounded hundreds, ARY News reported on Wednesday.
Taking to Twitter, the foreign office (FO) spokesperson wrote: “Evacuation plan for Pakistani nationals in Sudan continues. The ship carrying 37 Pakistani nationals from Port Sudan arrives in Jeddah.”
“They were received by Council General (CG) in Jeddah, Khalid Majid on arrival at Jeddah Port. We are grateful to the Government of Saudi Arabia for its support and hospitality,” the FO added.
In another statement, the FO said that “another convoy of 200 Pakistanis has arrived safely in Port Sudan”. It added that the “Embassy of Pakistan in Sudan will continue to facilitate their stay in Port Sudan and arrange their eventual repatriation”.
So far, over 700 Pakistanis have been evacuated to safety from the war-torn country.
Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Ministry – in a Tweet said – the boat with 1,687 civilians from more than 50 countries arrived in the kingdom today, which is the largest rescue effort by the Gulf state to date.
The group was “transported by one of the Kingdom’s ships, and the Kingdom was keen to provide all the basic needs of foreign nationals in preparation for their departure,” it said in a statement.
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The violence erupted on Saturday between the forces of two generals who seized power in a 2021 coup: army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and his deputy, Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, who commands the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
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It followed a bitter dispute between them over the planned integration of the RSF into the regular army — a key condition for a final deal aimed at restoring Sudan’s democratic transition.
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