Today, the Japanese Ministry of Defense announced that three aircraft of the Self-Defense Forces arrived in Djibouti, in preparation for the evacuation of Japanese nationals from Sudan, where military clashes between the army and the Rapid Support Forces are escalating.
The ministry said, in a statement, that the three planes, including a transport plane “C 130-” And”C2-“, landed in Djibouti, about 1,200 kilometers southeast of the capital, Khartoum, while assessing the situation in Sudan to determine the timing of the operation.
This announcement comes in the wake of statements by a Japanese government official that a total of 63 Japanese citizens, including the staff of the embassy, are in Sudan, and will be expelled from there, indicating that the operation comes in the midst of the declaration of a truce by the two parties to the conflict for three days.
Meanwhile, the Netherlands and Britain announced that they would carry out similar evacuations of their diplomatic staff and nationals from Khartoum, in the coming hours, to join a number of Western countries that rushed to withdraw their diplomatic missions from Sudan in anticipation of more violent developments in the country during the coming period.
It is noteworthy that the violent confrontations between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces have entered their second week, without stopping the war machine, and the two sides of the crisis are at the dialogue table despite Arab, regional and international appeals.
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