[ad_1] Bengaluru:A flight carrying 362 Indians who were stranded in strife-torn Sudan landed at the Kempegowda International Airport in Bengaluru on Friday, a senior official said. The evacuees included 114 from Karnataka, he added. India on Friday brought home 754 people under its mission to evacuate stranded Indians from Sudan. While 392 people arrived in … Read more
[ad_1] Tel Aviv Protesters carry a banner as they attend a mass ‘independence party’ in a demonstration against Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his nationalist coalition government’s judicial overhaul. The fight over the judicial changes ‘transcends issues of left and right, and comes down to public distrust in government’, said one of the architects … Read more
[ad_1] “I haven’t sold anything since 6am today,” said Adam Musa, a vegetable seller at Omdurman’s open-air market, as fighting between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces raged a few miles away. “There are no people buying.” Musa, 55, faced two problems: a lack of customers, and an inability on the part of … Read more
[ad_1] Street battles and gunfire threaten what remains of a fragile ceasefire in Sudan, now hanging by a thread despite a three-day extension of the truce agreement as a Turkish evacuation plane was shot at as it attempted to land. The Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), loyal to Gen Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, claimed the paramilitary group … Read more
[ad_1] The U.K conducted its last evacuation flight from Sudan on Saturday, as the U.S. and France also brought groups of foreign nationals out of the conflict-torn African country. The moves come amid a deteriorating security situation in Sudan, as fighting continues between the Sudanese Armed Forces and its rival paramilitary Rapid Support Forces. The … Read more
[ad_1] Cairo: Egypt has received more than 16,000 foreigners fleeing the deadly violence in neighbouring Sudan, including over 14,000 Sudanese national, the Foreign Ministry in Cairo said in a statement. The foreigners are from 50 countries and six international organisations, Ministry spokesman Ahmed Abu Zeid said in the statement. “The Egyptian efforts continue around the … Read more
[ad_1] Mumbai: Despite limited staff, the Indian embassy in Sudan operated round-the-clock to evacuate those stranded in the war-torn country, said some of the people who arrived in Mumbai from the African nation under ‘Operation Kaveri’ mission. These passengers, who landed in Mumbai on Thursday, narrated their harrowing experiences of the last seven days.Abdul Kadir, … Read more
[ad_1] Terrifying, crazy, desperate, relieved. These were the words that instantly came to mind as British citizens caught in the crosshairs of the conflict engulfing Sudan described their elation at being brought to safety during a fragile 72-hour truce. In Cyprus, on the first leg of their journey back home, the evacuees spoke of anger … Read more
[ad_1] 246 Indians evacuated from Sudan reach Mumbai safely (Photo: ANI) Mumbai: An Indian Air Force flight brought 246 Indians – who were evacuated from the strife-torn Sudan – to Mumbai via Jeddah, under ‘Operation Kaveri’, an official said here on Thursday. The flight by an IAF C-17 Globemaster aircraft took off from Jeddah this … Read more
[ad_1] Chennai: With all her money and valuables taken away during the conflict in Sudan, Divya Rajasekharan who arrived from the African country, said she lost all hopes of returning to Sudan. “A pair of dress and passport is all that I have now,” she said displaying them at the airport here on Thursday afternoon … Read more