Sharjah24 - Reuters: Evacuations continued out of Port Sudan on Tuesday (April 25) as more foreigners gathered to exit the country that has witnessed over a week of intense fighting.
Around 2,000 people of 16 different nationalities were transported out of the embattled country.
A power struggle erupted between the SAF and Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group on April 15 and has killed at least 427 people, knocked out hospitals and other services, and turned residential areas into war zones.
Fighting had abated overnight after the army and a rival paramilitary force agreed to a 72-hour truce but a witness said gunfire could be heard on Tuesday while Arab, Asian and Western nations were racing to extract their citizens from the country.
Tens of thousands of people, including Sudanese and citizens from neighboring countries, have fled in the past few days to Egypt, Chad and South Sudan, despite instability and difficult living conditions there. Foreign governments have been working to bring their nationals to safety.
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