At least 459 people have died and more than 4,000 have been injured.
The Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that a boat carrying 1,687 civilians from more than 50 countries who fled fighting in Sudan arrived in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday.
The ministry said in a statement that all of them “were transported by one of the Kingdom’s ships, and the Kingdom was keen to meet all the basic needs of foreign citizens.”
Thirteen of the civilians who arrived were from the Saudis, and the rest were from countries in the Middle East, Africa, Europe, Asia, North America and Central America, according to the same note.
Since April 15, Sudan has been witnessing fighting between the forces of the army commander and the de facto ruler of Sudan since the 2021 coup, Major General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, the “second man” and the commander of the supporting paramilitary forces. (Reporters Without Borders), Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo.
According to the United Nations, at least 459 people were killed and more than 4,000 injured.
A three-day ceasefire between the warring parties, brokered by the US, brought some calm to Khartoum, but witnesses reported a return to air strikes and fighting.
Saudi Arabia organized several air and sea evacuations. Also on Saturday, 150 people arrived by boat in the Saudi port city of Jeddah.
On Monday, a C-130 Hercules military plane transported dozens of South Korean civilians to an air base in Jeddah, while a boat ferried some 200 people from 14 countries across the Red Sea from Port Sudan.
The statement said that so far 2,148 people have been evacuated from Sudan to Saudi Arabia, including more than 2,000 foreigners.
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