RIYADH: Over 200 evacuees from Sudan arrived in Jeddah on board HMS Riyadh on Tuesday.
The 220 evacuees included 14 Saudi citizens and 206 foreign nationals from the US, Canada, South Sudan, and Yemen.
The Kingdom is keen to provide all the basic needs of the nationals of friendly countries in preparation for facilitating their departure to their homelands, Saudi Arabia’s foreign ministry said.
The latest evacuation brings the total number of those evacuated from Sudan by Saudi authorities to about 5,629 people including 239 citizens and about 5,390 foreign nationals.
The US consulate in Jeddah has welcomed and offered consular services to more than 350 US citizens and US legal permanent residents who have left Sudan, US State Department deputy spokesperson Vedant Patel told reporters on Tuesday.
Sudan’s warring military factions agreed to a new and longer seven-day ceasefire from Thursday, neighbour and mediator South Sudan said, even as more air strikes and shooting in the Khartoum capital region undercut their latest supposed truce.
