Bangladesh has now decided to evacuate its nationals safely from Sudan through other countries.
‘It has been decided to begin a process for evacuating Bangladeshis from Sudan through other countries. Bangladesh mission in Khartoum has already dispatched the message,’ said state minister for foreign affairs Md Shahriar Alam in a Facebook post on Tuesday.
He said that all concerned were requested to register following the mission’s instructions in this regard.
The way of evacuation was depending on the law and situation there, he added.
The junior minister made the disclosure a day after foreign minister AK Abdul Momen said that Bangladesh was not going to evacuate its mission officials from Sudan’s capital Khartoum at this moment as around 1500 Bangladeshis were staying in the country.
‘Many countries are evacuating their diplomats from Sudan following an instable situation there as fighting continues between Sudan’s regular army and a paramilitary Rapid Support Force. But we are not evacuating our mission officials at this moment,’ foreign minister AK Abdul Momen said at a press briefing on Monday.
Responding to a question, the minister said that the mission was asked to observe the situation and take measures so that Bangladeshis living there did not fall in trouble.
He said that Bangladeshis were already advised not to travel Sudan during the present situation.
The foreign minister said that many countries had already offered cooperation in evacuating Bangladesh diplomats from Sudan.
A growing list of countries have evacuated diplomats and citizens from Sudan’s capital as fierce fighting continues to rage in Khartoum, British Broadcasting Corporation reported on Sunday.
The United States and the United Kingdom announced on Sunday they had flown diplomats out of the country.
France, Germany, Italy and Spain have also been evacuating diplomats and other nationals.
A vicious power struggle between the regular army and a powerful paramilitary force has led to violence across Sudan for more than a week, according to the BBC report.
The US authorities said that they had airlifted fewer than 100 people with three Chinook helicopters on Sunday morning in a ‘fast and clean’ operation.
The US embassy in Khartoum was now closed, and a tweet on its official feed says it was not safe enough for the government to evacuate private US citizens, BBC reported.
The UK government managed to airlift British diplomats and their families out of the country in what was described as a ‘complex and rapid’ operation. Foreign minister James Cleverly said options to evacuate the remaining British nationals in Sudan were ‘severely limited’.
More than 1,000 European Union citizens had been taken out of Sudan, according to an update from the EU’s foreign policy chief on Monday morning.
