most of those being evacuated are diplomats and their families. spain, germany and italy are among other countries still evacuating people they say they ve successfully got hundreds of people out already. the us and uk have already flown diplomats out as well as canada. its prime minister, justin trudeau, tweeted that canadian officials in nearby countries have also been mobilized to help he says they re stationed in nearby djibouti which has a french and american military base. sudan s army has been fighting a rival paramilitary group, the rsf, for more than a week and this is what khartoum looks like right now. over the weekend, the violence intensified this city has been under constant shelling making evacuations difficult. here s the uk s defence secretary. it was dangerous and precarious but nevertheless we managed to use both see one 30s and a 400 aircraft to go in, and collect our diplomats and their residence and fly out to safety. and while foreign na
in nairobi or addis ababa or annette neighbouring country where they don t have to worry about the safety of their civilians. i think the real challenge with the departure of the international staff, however, is it is a signal to the local sudanese that it is not safe for anyone to be in the city anymore and what that is triggering is a mass exodus of people out of the city no longer feel even a modicum of people out of the city no longerfeel even a modicum of protection by the fact that international staff was there and so we are seeing people who probably shouldn t even be travelling right now in vehicles that probably can t even make the trip to the red sea or to the egyptian border because of these are very long journeys, much of which is across open desert and so you have people now travelling without food, without water, without food, without water, without medicine, trying to get to safety, all triggered, i think in many respects, by the departure of internationals and the uptak