‘Over 7,000 nationals, including Nigerians are not being allowed to cross the border into Egypt since their arrival late Thursday evening’

A Turkish evacuation plane was shot on Friday as it landed at an airbase outside Sudan’s capital, Khartoum.

Sudanese fighter jets pounded paramilitary positions in Khartoum on Thursday while deadly fighting and looting flared in Darfur, despite the army and a rival force agreeing to extend a ceasefire deal. In the final hours of a repeatedly broken three-day ceasefire, due to end at midnight (2200 GMT), the army and the Rapid Support Forces […]

Some Nigerian students cried out that they were stranded in a desert in the war-laden Sudan on Thursday.

Chairman of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM), Hon Abike Dabiri-Erewa has said buses conveying Nigerians from conflict-ridden Sudan have continued their journey after a stop.

THOSE who are always spoiling for war in Nigeria should take a look at what is happening in Sudan. A disagreement between the President and Head of the Sudanese military forces, General Abdel Fattah al Burhan, and the leader of the Rapid Support Forces, RSF, General Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo, has brought humanitarian crisis to the […]

The arrangement of the Federal Government to evacuate Nigerians trapped in the war-ravaged Sudan may come alive on Wednesday morning.

‘The ministers urge parents to advise their wards that while concerted efforts are being made to evacuate them, they should endeavour to remain calm and maintain constant communication with officials of the embassy’

The National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, has confirmed plans to evacuate over 2,000 Nigerians in crisis-hit Sudan this morning.

Japan has evacuated 45 nationals and their spouses from Sudan, and temporarily closed its embassy, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and officials said Tuesday. “A total of 45 people took off from eastern Sudan for Djibouti in the C2 transport aircraft dispatched” by Japanese troops, Kishida told reporters in the early hours of Tuesday. He said […]

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Sudan’s warring generals had agreed to a 72-hour ceasefire starting Tuesday, after 10 days of urban combat killed hundreds, wounded thousands and sparked a mass exodus of foreigners. Previous bids to pause the conflict failed to take hold but Blinken said: “Following intense negotiation over the past 48 […]

South Africa has joined the other countries in evacuating dozens of its diplomats and other citizens trapped in conflict-hit Sudan, Al-Jazeera reported on Monday.

Nigeria’s largest domestic airline, Air Peace, has expressed its willingness to evacuate Nigerians stranded in Sudan, free of charge.

By Chidi Odinkalu THERE are two countries whose wellbeing and stability reach into nearly every part of Africa. One is the Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC, which is nominally in the central African region but which shares borders with nine countries extending to all of the continent’s four other regions -Angola, Burundi, the Central African […]