OUT OF SUDAN -- Internationally-recruited personnel of the United Nations Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in Sudan are evacuated from Port Sudan on April 24, 2023. A UN convoy carrying 700 people completed an arduous 850-kilometer (530 mile) road trip from the Sudanese capital, where...
KHARTOUM, Sudan -- Multiple nations pushed on Monday with frantic evacuations of their citizens from chaos-torn Sudan, where fighting raged for a 10th day between forces loyal to two rival generals. As army and paramilitary forces again clashed in Khartoum and across the country, terrified Sudanese...
Three Filipinos have already been evacuated from Sudan and over a hundred will follow after internal clashes among its troops erupted, an official of the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said Monday, April 24. DFA Undersecretary Eduardo Jose de Vega said three female Filipinos already left the...
KHARTOUM, Sudan -- Battles raging in Sudan have sparked multiple evacuation operations to rescue foreign citizens or embassy staff by road, air and sea. The main airport in the capital Khartoum has been the site of heavy fighting and is under the control of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces...
President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. assured the public that the government was doing everything to ensure the safety of 300 Filipinos trapped amid the clashes in Sudan. *President Ferdinand ‘Bongbong’ Marcos Jr. (Malacañang photo)* In a video message, the President said the government was...
GENEVA, Switzerland- More than 400 people have been killed and over 3,500 others hurt in the fighting in Sudan, the World Health Organization said Friday. "Four hundred and thirteen people have died and 3,551 people have been injured ... that we know of," WHO spokeswoman Margaret Harris told...
KHARTOUM, Sudan -- UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called Thursday for a ceasefire in Sudan, as fighting between two rival generals showed no signs of abating ahead of festivities marking the end of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. The UN chief urged a truce of "at least three days" to mark...
An official of the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) reported on Thursday about receiving calls from Filipinos in Sudan who are requesting rescue and repatriation from the African nation amid the ongoing clashes between its two forces. DFA Undersecretary for Migrant Affairs Eduardo Jose de Vega...
TOKYO, Japan - Japan is preparing to evacuate its countrymen from Sudan, the government said Wednesday, the first nation to publicly announce plans to pull its citizens from the conflict-hit country. Violence between the Sudanese army and paramilitaries has killed around 200 people since a...
KHARTOUM, Sudan --Â Explosions rocked the Sudanese capital Khartoum Monday as fighting between the army and paramilitary forces led by rival generals raged for a third day with the death toll surpassing 100. The violence erupted Saturday after weeks of power struggles between the two generals who...
JUBA, South Sudan -- Pope Francis on Friday urged the leaders of South Sudan to make "a new start" for peace, warning that history would remember them for their actions, as he began a three-day visit to the violence-wracked country. "The process of peace and reconciliation requires a new start,"...
KINSHASA, DR Congo - Pope Francis is due to arrive on a three-day visit to South Sudan on Friday to promote peace and reconciliation in the world's youngest country, riven by the scars of civil war and extreme poverty. The "pilgrimage of peace" is the first ever papal visit to South Sudan since the...
