Sudan has been mired in civil chaos for ten days now with the United States and European countries scrambling to get their citizens safely out of Sudan as the situation in the country spirals out of control by the day. and the battles that rage are fierce.

So far 28 Greeks and members of their families have been removed from Sudan with the help of Italy and France who have been transferred to Djibouti and from there they will be picked up by a Greek transport aircraft C-27 that took off shortly before 5 pm today from the airport in Aswan in Egypt. However, there are still around 70 to 100 Greeks trapped, some of whom described on SKAI’s main news bulletin the nightmarish hours they live with the anxiety for their own lives constantly growing while at the same time, they appeal for help.

“No human being can survive like this, we are asking for help. Today again shootings, after the effort we made in the morning to get out of the Metropolis, to go to the French embassy. It is impossible for anyone to get out of the center, we saw it today with our own eyes. We saw death. The one who told us to “get out” was sending us to death and he knows it very well. The army spoke to us very badly, they shot the car a little. Soon we will run out of electricity and water, because the oil that is left is very little, he told us yesterday, we were notified. Soon we won’t have to charge our mobiles. How will we speak, how will you hear our news, will you know that we are dying.” says speaking to SKAI n Alexandra Calumeti describing the hell they live.

With the bullets raining down, the 12 Greeks who have found refuge in the Metropolis, tried to leave in their cars. At the same time, a Greek who is in another part of Khartoum tried to reach the French embassy and describes in detail what he experienced.

“They took us and told us go to the French embassy, ​​they will take you from there, to the plane from there. We went there we sat for 3 hours, bullets in the road, not inside the embassy, ​​on the street, etclying on the street, with my wife and a 1.5 year old girl and in the end they brought us home. We have reached the point where people think that they will leave alone for Egypt and from there God and our destiny” reports to SKAI.

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THE Nikos Limnios he is one of the lucky Greeks in Sudan who left his home early Sunday morning and managed to break free. “At any moment we are leaving for Rome… I am with the Italians .. Thank God we are gone. These are difficult times and I am shocked by all that has happened. Yesterday they informed us that they were evacuating us and we all gathered together in one place to leave. We went there with our own cars” said Mr. Limnios.

At the same time, the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs is in communication with the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs while at the same time discussing the further coordination of assistance from Egypt and the United Arab Emirates. Also, Germany and Hungary expressed their desire to help in the evacuation operations.

Escape airway

So far over 1000 foreign nationals have fled Sudan by air. They are citizens of dozens of countries, who were evacuated by flights organized by only eight countries so far. French and Italian warplanes are transporting dozens of civilians to Djibouti airport. Also, with three German airplanes 311 citizens fled to Berlin from Sudan.

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“I want to thank France for removing our citizens. It was a successful business but complicated” said the Head of European Diplomacy, Joseph Borel.

Ankara, for its part, is evacuating its citizens by road to Ethiopia, while a convoy of 65 vehicles with 700 people is heading, under the United Nations, to Port Sudan in the east.

On the brink of a humanitarian crisis

From the fierce battles in the streets of Khartoum, the dead now exceed 420. At the same time, food and water are hard to find, hospitals are either closed or destroyed and the shortage of medicines is serious, with the country facing a new humanitarian crisis .

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UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned today, Monday, that the situation in Sudan could overwhelm the entire region. Guterres also called for a ceasefire and said aid workers should be allowed on both sides, stressing that the United Nations is not abandoning Sudan.