Africa-Press – Angola. Ten Angolan citizens who were studying in Sudan returned Friday, to Angola, due to the ongoing armed conflict in that African country.
The return was safeguarded by the Angolan Government, in order to safeguard the lives of these citizens, in a process started last Tuesday by the Angolan Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Speaking to the press, at the 4 de Fevereiro International Airport, in Luanda, the director of the Institute of Angolan Communities Abroad and Consular Services, Maria Filomena António, said that the evacuation was the result of a directive from the Executive.
“We were mandated and did the work together with the embassies of Egypt, Ethiopia and South Africa, which facilitated the departure of students”, he explained.
In turn, the student representative, Roque Nzaji Kuima, said he was “extremely” moved by the action, having thanked the Angolan State for its support, as they were in danger.
“Thank God we arrived in our land”, he said, stressing that conditions in Sudan were precarious, with no possibility of moving from the International University of Sudan, where they were, to safer places.
He informed that they left the conflict zone based on indications from the Ethiopian, South African and Egyptian embassies, after several attempts.
“The current military and political situation in Sudan is not good. The climate is tense, but as a student I don’t have much depth to talk about the subject, since we lived on the university campus”, he said.
The Sudanese Armed Forces and the Paramilitary Rapid Intervention Group entered into a disagreement that resulted in an armed conflict, which started on the 15th of this month, a situation that caused the reflux of refugees and worsened the humanitarian situation in the region.
Generals Fatah Al-Burhan, who leads the country, and Mohamede Hamdan, better known as Hemedti, who is responsible for the paramilitary group Forças de Apoyo Rapid, disagreed over the participation of paramilitaries in the Army and are currently vying for power.
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