The continuous battles between the army and the Rapid Support Forces in Sudan prompted many countries to intensify their efforts to evacuate their nationals or members of diplomatic missions by land, sea and air.

While the main airport in Khartoum is the scene of fierce fighting, with the Rapid Support Forces controlling it, several evacuations are taking place through Port Sudan on the Red Sea , 850 km from the capital.

What follows is a summary of the most prominent efforts led by several countries to transfer their citizens and employees to safety.

On Sunday, the United States evacuated about a hundred people, among its embassy staff and "some foreign diplomats from Khartoum, in three "Sh-47 Chinook" helicopters that it sent from Djibouti to Ethiopia and then to Sudan, where it remained on the ground for less than an hour. He participated in the operation. More than 100 US Special Operations personnel.

There are still thousands of American citizens in Sudan, some of whom hold another nationality.

Canada has evacuated, according to its Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, its embassy staff from Khartoum.

The European Union's foreign affairs chief, Josep Borrell, announced on Monday that more than a thousand EU nationals left Sudan in evacuations that took place over the weekend. "It was a complex and successful operation," he told reporters.

The European Union has a diplomatic mission in Khartoum, similar to France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Greece and the Czech Republic.

On Monday, the French Foreign Ministry announced the evacuation of "388 people, including French citizens who expressed their desire to do so, as well as a large number of nationals of other countries, Europeans in particular, as well as Africans and from the American continent and Asia" from Sudan, after several flights operated since Sunday between Khartoum and Djibouti.

On Sunday, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni reported the evacuation of all her citizens who asked to leave Sudan, hours after Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani announced that the Italian army had evacuated "about 200 people, including Swiss citizens and members of the Apostolic Nunciature" via Djibouti.

Dutch Foreign Minister Wupke Hoekstra said that a "handful" of Dutch nationals had been evacuated on a French plane, hoping to evacuate another group on a Dutch plane at a later time, speaking of a "very complex operation".

Germany announced the evacuation of 300 people, including citizens and individuals of other nationalities, in three planes, after a failed attempt last Wednesday.

A Spanish plane evacuated 100 people, thirty Spaniards and seventy from Europe and Latin America, from Sudan to Djibouti on Sunday, according to what Madrid announced.

And Greece announced that it had evacuated on Sunday the first group of its citizens, including two wounded, to Djibouti, "with the help of France," and that 10 citizens and their families left in the Italian evacuation process.

Ireland, for its part, said it had begun an "evacuation process" of its 150 nationals from Sudan.

Sweden sent 150 soldiers to evacuate its diplomats and nationals from Sudan, according to the Ministry of Defense.

On Sunday evening, the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported the evacuation of 436 citizens from Sudan by land, "in coordination with the Sudanese authorities," after evacuating 177 military personnel last week.

Saudi Arabia, which led the first successful evacuations on Saturday, reported evacuating 91 of its citizens, as well as about 66 nationals from 12 other countries, by sea.

On Saturday, Jordan announced that it had begun evacuating about 300 Jordanians.

And Baghdad announced on Sunday, "the evacuation of 14 Iraqis from Khartoum to a safe location in the Port Sudan region," stressing that efforts are continuing to evacuate others, after it indicated on Saturday that the Iraqi embassy employees had left Khartoum.

And the Lebanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced the evacuation of 52 people at dawn on Monday from Port Sudan on board a Saudi navy ship to the city of Jeddah.

The Libyan embassy in Khartoum said on Friday that it had evacuated 83 Libyans from Khartoum and transferred them to Port Sudan.

++ Tunisia sent a plane on Monday morning, while a number of its citizens have already left on Saudi ships.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees announced that a number of 800,000 refugees from South Sudan, who fled to Sudan to escape the war in their country, are about to return on their own.

Chad is sending planes to return 438 of its nationals leaving Khartoum on buses to Port Sudan, according to the government.

The United Kingdom has confirmed that it is doing "everything we can" to evacuate its citizens from Sudan, at a time when a number of them said they felt "left to their fate".

The British Foreign Secretary had defended the decision to prioritize an overnight military operation to evacuate embassy staff and their families, citing a "very specific threat to the diplomatic community".

Norway announced the evacuation of its diplomats from Khartoum.

Switzerland reported the evacuation of seven of its embassy staff and family members, with the help of France.

Ankara began its operations at dawn on Sunday, transporting about 600 of its nationals by land from two neighborhoods of Khartoum and the southern city of Wad Medani.

However, the Turkish embassy in Khartoum announced in a tweet that the date for the evacuation of the Turks in the Kafouri neighborhood, north of Khartoum, had been postponed "until further notice" due to an explosion that occurred on Sunday morning near a mosque designated as a gathering site.

Other foreign countries are preparing evacuations, including South Korea and Japan, after deploying troops to neighboring countries.
India's foreign ministry said it had two military aircraft "on standby" in Saudi Arabia and a navy ship had arrived in Port Sudan, but any evacuation "would depend on the security situation".

Indonesia stated that 43 of its nationals had taken refuge in the embassy compound in Khartoum, stressing that the government "is taking all necessary measures to evacuate Indonesian nationals from Sudan," according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Agence France-Presse.

China announced the evacuation of the first batch of its citizens, who number more than 1,500 in Sudan.