On Monday, the evacuations of nationals and foreign diplomats from Sudan continued, as the battles between the army and the Rapid Support Forces approached their tenth day, in the absence of any prospect of ending the clashes.

However, the United Nations announced in a statement on Monday the retention of a number of its employees in Sudan, headed by the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General, Volker Berthes, while 700 of its employees, embassies and non-governmental organizations arrived at Port Sudan to evacuate them.

With the continued whistling of bullets and the sound of explosions in Khartoum and other cities, Western and regional capitals were able to open safe paths for the expulsion of foreign nationals with the guarantee of the two conflicting parties, that is, the army commander Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and the commander of the Rapid Support Forces Muhammad Hamdan Dagalo.

The fighting, which began on April 15th, has killed more than 420 people, injured nearly 4,000, and put the health care system under enormous pressure to deal with the growing death toll.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned Monday that the ongoing violence in Sudan between the two warring parties could "spread to the entire region and beyond."

He said during a Security Council debate on pluralism that the situation in Sudan "continues to deteriorate."

"The violence must stop. It threatens a catastrophic conflagration inside Sudan that could spread to the entire region and beyond," he added.

And the European Union's foreign policy official, Josep Borrell, announced that the bloc was able to evacuate a thousand of its nationals from Sudan.

"It was a complex and successful operation," he told reporters on Monday, stressing that 21 diplomats from the United Nations mission in Khartoum were expelled, while the European Union ambassador left Khartoum and moved to another part of Sudan.

Borrell thanked France, which since Sunday has led air evacuations to Djibouti using military aircraft.

For his part, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, on Monday, expressed his concern about the presence of the Russian Wagner Group in Sudan, and said in a joint press conference with his Kenyan counterpart in Washington, "We are very concerned about the presence of the Prigozhin Group, the Wagner Group, in Sudan."
And the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on Monday that it had so far evacuated about 400 of its nationals and holders of other nationalities.

And she explained in a statement that "these flights allowed the evacuation of 388 people, including French citizens who expressed their desire to do so, in addition to a large number of nationals of other countries, Europeans in particular, as well as Africans and from the American continent and Asia."

The evacuees held the nationalities of Germany, Austria, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Hungary, the United Kingdom, Sweden, Switzerland, South Africa, Burundi, Ethiopia, Lesotho, Morocco, Namibia, Niger, Uganda and Rwanda, as well as Sudan, the United States, Canada, India, Japan and the Philippines.

The weekend witnessed an acceleration in evacuations, which were carried out by several countries such as the United States, Britain, Germany and China.

A statement by the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Monday, stated that it had "peacefully evacuated" the first batch of its nationals, stressing that it would "make every effort to protect the lives, property and safety of more than 1,500 Chinese citizens in Sudan."

For its part, London confirmed, through a government spokesman, that its armed forces "took advantage of a narrow window of opportunity" to complete the evacuation.

The spokesman pointed out that "in light of the continuing violent clashes in Khartoum and the closure of its main airport" because of this since the first day of the outbreak of the fighting, "it is impossible to organize a larger evacuation" at the present time.
Egypt and Saudi Arabia were the most prominent Arabs in terms of evacuations.

And the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on Sunday night, "the evacuation of 436 citizens from Sudan" through the land border between the two countries, while Riyadh announced on Saturday the evacuation of more than 100 Saudis and nationals of other countries by sea to Jeddah, after they moved by land to the city of Port Sudan in eastern Sudan.

On Saturday, Jordan announced the start of the evacuation of about 300 Jordanians, and Baghdad confirmed the evacuation of 14 Iraqis "to a safe location in the Port Sudan area," and efforts are continuing to evacuate others.

On Monday, the Lebanese Foreign Ministry announced the evacuation of 52 people from Port Sudan to Jeddah on board a Saudi navy ship. Also, 105 Libyans left Sudan in the same way, according to what their country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed on Monday.

The Algerian authorities announced the start of the operation on Monday to evacuate diplomats and citizens, while Iraq confirmed the arrival of 14 citizens to the port of Port Sudan.

Indonesia announced the transfer of a group of 538 of its citizens in Sudan from Khartoum to Port Sudan and from there to Jeddah, while another group of 289 is waiting to travel in a second stage.

The government of Chad also reported that it would send planes to the port overlooking the Red Sea to collect 438 of its nationals leaving Khartoum by bus to Port Sudan.

Most of the foreigners who were evacuated are diplomatic personnel, while many civilians are waiting for their turn to be evacuated by air, in convoys of buses and four-wheel drive cars that move with security escorts from Khartoum towards military bases outside it, or to the city of Port Sudan.

Djibouti is an essential station for air evacuations, as military planes transporting civilians from Sudan land there.

And now this country overlooking the Red Sea and the Bab al-Mandab Strait hosts many foreign military forces, whose members organize the arrivals of dozens of exhausted families.

Since the evacuations accelerated over the weekend, officials and analysts have raised growing fears about the fate of the Sudanese, amid fears that the battles will intensify again once the expulsion of the nationals who wish to do so ends.

"I fear for their future," wrote the Norwegian ambassador, Andre Stiansen.
"Now, weapons and personal interests are more important than values and words... All scenarios are bad," he added.

Leaving Khartoum has become an obsession for its five million residents, in light of the power outages and shortages of supplies and water.

However, leaving is not easy, especially in light of the need for large quantities of fuel to travel the distance towards the Egyptian border to the north (about a thousand kilometers), or to reach Port Sudan (850 kilometers to the east) in the hope of moving from it by sea to another country.

Fuel has become a scarce and expensive currency in Khartoum, which was already suffering from high inflation affecting most basic materials.

And the United Nations warned that "while foreigners who can afford to flee, the impact of violence on the already critical humanitarian situation in Sudan is increasing."

Likewise, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees estimated that 800,000 South Sudanese refugees living in Sudan will depend on themselves to return to their homeland, from which they fled to escape the war.

And forced many agencies of the international organization to suspend their activities in Sudan.

Daglo and Al-Burhan were allies when they carried out a coup in 2021, during which they removed the civilians who were sharing power with them from power, two years after the overthrow of the Omar al-Bashir regime.
But the differences and the struggle for power soon began between them.

The support forces were formed in Darfur to support Bashir's forces in the conflict that the western region witnessed at the beginning of the third millennium.

In light of the difficulty of access to the region, which is one of the poorest regions of Sudan, the United Nations World Food Program reported that "10 vehicles and six food trucks were stolen" in the region.

The program estimated the volume of looted food aid at about "four thousand cubic meters."