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Egypt announces the killing of the assistant administrative attache at its embassy in Sudan

April 25, 2023

Today, the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced the killing of Mohamed Al-Gharawi, Assistant Administrative Attaché at the Egyptian Embassy in Sudan. The ministry said, in a statement, that Al-Gharawi was killed while he was on his way from his home to the embassy to follow up on the procedures for evacuating Egyptian citizens from Sudan.

The statement stressed that the Egyptian mission in Sudan will continue to assume its responsibility in following up the tasks of evacuating Egyptian citizens from Sudan and ensuring their safe return to the homeland.

On the other hand, the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that the number of Egyptian citizens who have been evacuated from Sudan so far has reached 904 since the start of the evacuation plan. Ambassador Ahmed Abu Zeid, the official spokesman for the ministry, said in a statement today that 134 Egyptians were evacuated from Sudan by air and 334 people by land, in coordination with the Sudanese authorities. Consulate in Wadi Halfa. The official spokesman for the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced the evacuation of 436 Egyptians by land from Sudan yesterday, Sunday, in coordination with the Sudanese authorities.

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The Arab Desk leads The Eastern Herald's reporting on the Middle East and North Africa. The desk has covered the Gaza-Israel war since October 2023, the Iran-Israel war of 2025-2026, the fall of the Assad government in Syria, Hezbollah's political and military shifts in Lebanon, the war in Yemen, and the diplomatic realignment of the Gulf states under the Abraham Accords and the Saudi-Iranian rapprochement.

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