a first plane with 245 French and foreign nationals lands in Paris

A first plane, carrying French and foreign nationals evacuated from Sudan, landed Wednesday morning, April 26, at 7:33 a.m., at Roissy Charles de Gaulle airport, in Paris, noted a franceinfo journalist present on the spot. The plane departed from Djibouti, where foreign nationals had been evacuated in recent days, fleeing war-torn Sudan.

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245 people were on board, including seven children. In detail, 195 French, a dozen Dutch and twenty Sudanese, among other nationalities, made the trip to Paris. They are, for the most part, the staff of the French Embassy in Khartoum, humanitarian workers, Franco-Sudanese families and a few employees of French companies operating in Sudan.

They are received by Catherine Colonna, the French Minister for Foreign Affairs, as well as by the Minister for Foreign Trade Olivier Becht. A reception system must be offered to them with rehousing solutions. According to information from franceinfo, all French people who wanted to leave war-torn Sudan were able to do so.