World
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War in Ukraine
5/7/2023 8:10:54 PM
The head of the United Nations' nuclear watchdog expressed growing anxiety about the safety of a Russian-occupied nuclear power plant near the front lines of fighting in Ukraine after the Moscow-installed governor of the area ordered the evacuation of the city where most plant staff live.
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War in Sudan
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War in Sudan
5/2/2023 10:43:57 AM
Russia's armed forces said on Tuesday they were evacuating more than 200 people from Sudan on four military transport planes.
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War in Sudan
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War in Sudan
5/1/2023 10:04:52 PM
A US-operated evacuation ship arrived in Saudi Arabia from Sudan on Monday, carrying more than 300 civilians from multiple countries, Saudi state media said.
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War in Sudan
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War in Sudan
5/1/2023 11:16:28 AM
Egypt is running three additional daily trains to transport people fleeing violence in Sudan from Aswan city in the south to the capital, Cairo.
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War in Sudan
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War in Sudan
4/30/2023 12:32:37 PM
The UK vowed Sunday to maintain support for Britons trapped in Sudan but said conditions had grown too dangerous to continue evacuation flights.
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War in Sudan
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War in Sudan
4/30/2023 10:24:17 AM
Hundreds of Americans fleeing two weeks of deadly fighting in Sudan reached the east African nation’s port Saturday in the first U.S.-run evacuation, completing a dangerous land journey under escort of armed drones
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War in Sudan
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War in Sudan
4/29/2023 10:34:05 PM
Egypt halted the evacuation of Egyptian citizens from the Wadi Seida Airbase outside Khartoum over security concerns, the Egyptian Foreign Ministry announced on Saturday.
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War in Sudan
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War in Sudan
4/29/2023 6:13:11 PM
The first Iranian evacuees to escape the Sudan conflict through Saudi Arabia arrived on Saturday in Jeddah, relieved that their country has settled its differences with the regional rival.
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War in Sudan
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War in Sudan
4/28/2023 7:34:58 PM
Egypt has ramped up the preparedness of hospitals in its southern governorates to provide medical support to Egyptians, Sudanese and other foreign nationals fleeing Sudan.
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War in Sudan
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War in Sudan
4/28/2023 2:54:18 PM
Vodafone Egypt and Telecom Egypt (WE) have started offering free phone calls and SMS to Sudan for three days and one week respectively amid the deadly clashes that have wracked the neighbouring country since mid-April.
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War in Sudan
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War in Sudan
4/28/2023 12:59:22 PM
Minister of Foreign Affairs Sameh Shoukry affirmed that Egypt does not believe in the presence of any military solution to the crisis in Sudan in a phone call on Thursday with UK’s Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs James Cleverly.
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War in Sudan
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War in Sudan
4/27/2023 9:24:11 AM
Warring factions trying to seize control of the east African nation of Sudan have plunged the country into chaos, and thousands are fleeing the capital of Khartoum and nearby battle zones. Some countries, including the U.S., have shuttered their embassies and many are coordinating daring evacuations of their staffs and other residents in an array of convoys, flights and frantic getaway drives.
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World
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Region
4/26/2023 9:06:17 PM
Leila Oulkebous' research for her doctorate from one of France's top universities was going well when the explosions started.
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World
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Region
4/26/2023 8:44:35 PM
Nigeria on Wednesday started evacuating the first of around 3,500 of its nationals, mostly students, from Sudan to neighbouring Egypt as a fragile ceasefire allowed foreigners to flee.
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World
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Region
4/26/2023 10:36:31 AM
A ship carrying 1,687 civilians from more than 50 countries fleeing violence in Sudan docked in Saudi Arabia Wednesday, the foreign ministry said, the largest evacuation effort by the kingdom so far.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
4/25/2023 8:45:27 PM
Egypt evacuated 635 citizens from Sudan on Tuesday, 446 via land and 189 via air, upping the total number of Egyptian evacuees to 1,539.
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World
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Region
4/25/2023 8:38:55 PM
Multiple nations have scrambled to evacuate embassy staff and citizens by road, air and sea from chaos-torn Sudan, where fighting between the army and paramilitaries has killed hundreds.
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Egypt
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Society
4/25/2023 8:15:34 PM
The Egyptian Ministry of Education announced on Tuesday the postponement of final exams for students of Thanaweya Amma (Grade 12) and high school diplomas in Sudan “until the security situation stabilises.”
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World
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Region
4/25/2023 5:49:09 PM
A US-brokered ceasefire between Sudan's warring generals brought some calm to the capital on Tuesday, but witnesses reported fresh air strikes and paramilitaries claimed to have seized a major oil refinery and power plant.
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World
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Region
4/24/2023 7:13:44 PM
As continued fighting raises fears that Sudan could plunge deeper into chaos, foreign governments are scrambling to get their diplomats and other citizens safely out of the country. Most countries deployed military transport aircraft to fly people out, including France which used its airbase in neighboring Djibouti for the airlift. But not all is going smoothly – about 2,000 British nationals remain in Sudan, and many complain that their government isn’t giving them enough information about evacuation plans.
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