evacuating their citizens from the capital khartoum as fighting between two rival armed groups continues. most of those being evacuated are diplomats and their families. these are pictures of french nationals leaving earlier. spain, germany and italy are among other countries still evacuating people. the us and uk have already flown diplomats out, as well as canada. canada s 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 european and american military bases. sudan s army has been fighting a rival paramilitary group, the rsf, for more than a week. this is the scene in the capital, khartoum. and while foreign nationals are airlifted out, sudan s civilians remain trapped in the fighting. the violence worsening the country s already desperate humanitarian crisis. our correspondent mayeni jones is in lagos with the latest. it s a very difficult situation
did fail to hold and. the eu foreign policy chief says there can be no military solution to the fighting. the international community must push the rival generals to a political resolution to bring an end. let s speak now to a man whose niecejennifer is stranded in khartoum. a worrying time for you, donald and the family, how isjennifer? have you spoken to her recently? how is jennifer? have you spoken to her recently? how is jennifer? have you spoken to her recently? thank you for allowing us to take the her recently? thank you for allowing us to take the time her recently? thank you for allowing us to take the time the her recently? thank you for allowing us to take the time the behalf - her recently? thank you for allowing us to take the time the behalf of - us to take the time the behalf of the family. yes, about ten minutes ago we interacted withjennifer on facebook and she is fine. the internet was down so we had no communication from ten o clock last night, so w
show no signs of ending. the violence has been happening for more than a week now, worsening the country s already desperate humanitarian crisis. we have pictures of a spanish personnel and citizens being evacuated overnight. other countries have also moved their diplomatic staff to safety but foreign civilians have been reporting difficulties trying to leave the country. some have been travelling by road in convoys heading to the red sea, as well as north to the border with egypt. it has been very difficult to reach people because of the internet is down and that means people cannot get the information they need from their embassies, they can t find out how safe are certain roads are, so it is a very difficult and tricky situation and that has made a lot of the people i speak to quite anxious. one man in the city, the twin city across the nile from khartoum, was speaking to me while there was heavy gunfire right outside his door on his street. he had visited the country with
last little while we have heard that israel has proposed hosting the rival sudanese leaders for talks. so the israeli foreign ministry are just saying that any last little while, just that one sentence, a whole flurry of international efforts to get a truce. all of them have failed so far, but israel now proposing hosting rival sudanese leaders for talks, so we will keep an eye on that development. whilst we were hearing from andrew mitchell in the house of commons, we were also getting the latest views from us secretary of state. worth going through the key conclusions he has been talking about because he says the state department continues to be, in close communication with us citizens to provide information on possible departure routes, including americans travelling overland in the un convoy to port sudan. dozens of american nationals, he says, have expressed interest in leaving sudan. he also has said that the sudanese people are not giving up on the democratic future an
was organised electronic voting in the us election. and the former strictly and dancing with the stars judge len goodman has died at the age of 78. now more on the crisis in sudan as there is growing frustration among british civilians in the country. dual mats have been evacuated but civilians speaking about feeling abandoned by the government as its thaw upward of 4000 britons are in sudan given the strong historic links between the two countries. 0n the ground, there is no sign of a cease fire. we have seen rebel forces there moving around the capital so let s head to amsterdam where we are joined by a british sudanese writer born here in london and raised in khartoum where his family remained until 1990. welcome to the programme. when you watch what is happening there in sudan, no sign of any pause despite the repeated pleas from the international community. what do you make of the situation? this international community. what do you make of the situation? make of the s