Dakar announced that it hastily removed about twenty citizens of Senegal and Guinea-Bissau from Sudan, a country where fighting between the army and paramilitaries has been raging since mid-April, which has led many countries to make a desperate effort to save their citizens.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Senegal said in a statement that it “proceeded on Tuesday, May 2, 2023, to repatriate 12 Senegalese citizens and 9 Guinea-Bissau citizens from Sudan.” Guinea-Bissau neighbors Senegal.

The “candidates for voluntary return” were first taken from Khartoum to Cairo and then to Dakar, according to the statement, which did not specify the number of Senegalese nationals living in Sudan or planned to be repatriated.

In the battles in Sudan, with hundreds of dead and thousands of wounded, the forces of the two generals who had seized power in the country with the coup d’état of October 2021 are facing off.

Army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and the head of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), Mohamed Hamdan Daglo or “Hameti”, agreed to an extension of the -theoretical- ceasefire after mediation by the US and Saudi Arabia.

Despite the announcement of an “agreement in principle” by the generals to extend the cease-fire, which has so far never been observed, until May 11, “fighting and explosions” continued to rock the capital Khartoum yesterday, while military aircraft continued to make sorties over from the city, residents told AFP.