Efforts to bring Canadians home from Sudan will continue for as long as possible amid escalating violence and deteriorating safety conditions, federal Defence Minister Anita Anand said Saturday.
At least one evacuation flight is planned by the Canadian military on Saturday, she said. It would be the fifth to leave the Sudanese capital of Khartoum since Thursday.
Those options, she said, involve exploring evacuation efforts by land or sea. Two navy vessels bound for the Indo-Pacific region have instead been redirected to remain near the city of Port Sudan in case they can be of future use in getting Canadians home, Anand said. Sudan's capital of Khartoum, a city of some five million people, has been transformed into a front line in the grinding conflict between Gen. Abdel Fattah Burhan, the commander of Sudan's military, and Gen. Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo, who leads the powerful paramilitary group known as the Rapid Support Forces. The two weeks of bloodshed and strife between the two sides has dashed once-euphoric hopes of Sudan's transition to a democracy.
More than 50,000 refugees - mostly women and children - have crossed over the western border to Chad, Egypt, South Sudan and the Central African Republic, the United Nations said, raising fears of wider instability. Ethnic fighting and turmoil has scarred South Sudan and the Central African Republic while Chad's own democratic transition has stalled after a coup.
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