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3:52 p.m. : Good morning . Around 250 nationals currently live in Sudan, according to this BFMTV article. According to a latest count communicated by the Ministry of the Armed Forces and that of Europe and Foreign Affairs, 196 French people were evacuated from Khartoum to Djibouti.
3:41 p.m. : Are there many French nationals in Sudan?
2:08 p.m. : It’s time for our best-of, here are the contents not to be missed:
• The report by our journalist Marie-Violette Bernard in Catalonia, where we could soon run out of drinking water, due to an episode of historic drought.
It’s been a full year since Emmanuel Macron was re-elected to the Elysée. Work, health, energy transition… Lola Scandella takes stock of this first year of office.
• Faustine Calmel traveled to Khartoum, which has become “a ghost town” since the start of the crisis which is shaking Sudan.
1:05 p.m. : “The French Embassy will continue its activities from Paris under the responsibility of the Ambassador”said the spokesperson for the Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs in her press release. “France is mobilized to facilitate a ceasefire and the resumption of the political transition process in Sudan”she adds, and she “calls on all parties to end the fighting, allow humanitarian access, spare civilian populations, and return to the path of political dialogue.”
1:03 p.m. : The French Embassy in Sudan is closed “until further notice”, announces the spokesperson for the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She specifies that the latter “no longer constitutes a meeting point for people wishing to leave Khartoum”.
11:55 a.m. : Violent fighting has pitted the Sudanese army against the paramilitaries of the Rapid Support Forces for a week in Khartoum. The capital has become “a ghost town” and the food is running out, tells us a resident.
11:39 : We would like to interview French nationals who have left Sudan in recent days, or who are waiting to be evacuated. Are you concerned? Do not hesitate to write to us at the following address: rsinfoftv[@]francetv.fr. Our journalists will contact you.
11:11 a.m. : Good morning @the green viking. This information has not been confirmed by the French authorities. Ofs anonymous sources at the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and the Armed Forces told AFP that they did not “wish to comment on this kind of rumor” while “the operation is not completed”.
11:11 a.m. : Hello Marie-Violette,The Guardian evokes a wounded during a French evacuation in Sudan, following shootings on a convoy. Do you have any information, it looks like it happened yesterday.
09:30 : More than 1,000 European Union nationals have been evacuated from Sudan, according to the head of European diplomacy.
08:31 : The Ministries of Armies and Foreign Affairs announce that 388 people have been evacuated from Sudan by the French army. They hope the operation will be completed by tomorrow evening. But they remind us that the context is “volatile” and “Blockages remain possible with the belligerents”.
06:53 : Several countries are carrying out similar operations, after a week of heavy fighting in Khartoum. The German army says it has evacuated 101 people from Sudan, Spain around 100 and Italy “about 200 people”. Egypt, a neighboring country of Sudan, has for its part exfiltrated, “by land, 436 nationals”.
06:50 : In total, about 200 people were evacuated by France. The Ministry of the Armed Forces specifies that the operation mobilizes 150 soldiers, “elements of protection, others of reconnaissance, logistical support and medical personnel”.