The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, has disclosed that the country has concluded arrangements to evacuate over 5,500 Nigerians stranded in Sudan by road.
“Our situation is particularly challenging because the numbers are so great. Some of the countries like the US and European countries have started evacuating. But what they’ve been evacuating were actually their diplomatic staff. They haven’t been able to start evacuating their citizens there. We can’t evacuate all our diplomatic staff at the moment because they need to also coordinate the evacuation of all those students that we’re talking about.
According to him, the three options available to us include the Egyptian border, Port Sudan, and the Ethiopian border.
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