Due to the civil war situation in Sudan, the Hungarian government, relying on the resources of the Hungarian Defense Forces, in cooperation with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, evacuated 32 people, including 7 Hungarian citizens, from the country, the Minister of National Defense announced at dawn on Thursday at the Kecskemét air base.

Kristóf Szalay-Bobrovniczky said after the landing of the Airbus A319 army plane carrying evacuated Hungarians and foreign nationals at the 101st Aviation Brigade of the valiant Szentgyörgyi Dezső of the Hungarian Armed Forces: "the safety of the Hungarian people is the most important thing wherever they are in the world".

ALL HUNGARIANS COULD RETURN SAFELY FROM SUDAN WITH THIS PROMOTION, he added.

The minister emphasized: for security reasons, he cannot say more about the technical details of the precisely executed "Desert Caravan" operation, which requires great care, but the operation was successful

TO BRING CITIZENS OF EIGHT NATIONS IN ADDITION TO THE SEVEN HUNGARIANS, AMONG THEM AMERICAN, CANADIAN, NORWAY, TURKEY AND SUDAN TO HUNGARY WITH A DJIBOUTI TOUCH.

Kristóf Szalay-Bobrovniczky expressed his gratitude to all the participants of the action, thanks to whom it was possible to get 32 ​​people stranded in the country safely out of the country in the shortest possible time.

Clashes have been ongoing in SUDAN SINCE APRIL 15

between the army led by General Abdel Fattah al-Burháni, who oversees the 2021 military takeover, and the paramilitary Rapid Response Support Forces (RSF) controlled by his counterpart and former deputy, General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, known as Hemedti.

According to the Sudanese Ministry of Health, the clashes have already left 512 dead and 4,193 wounded. The opposing sides agreed on a three-day ceasefire on Monday, and the African Union (AU) urged a lasting ceasefire. Since the fighting broke out, several countries have begun evacuating their citizens from Sudan, while over 10,000 people of various nationalities have fled to Egypt in the past five days.

Source and full article: Origo

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