Cairo revealed the arrival of the first Egyptian warship to the port of Safaga on the Red Sea, carrying more than 400 Egyptians and foreigners stranded in Sudan.
Today (Tuesday) the official page of the Red Sea Governorate on Facebook quoted the governor, Amr Hanafi, as saying: “An Egyptian warship has transported 466 people from Sudan, including 272 Egyptians, 184 Sudanese, 5 Britons, 3 Rwandans, and one American.” The Egyptian ship is participating in the efforts to evacuate those fleeing the conflict, and it has arrived at the Egyptian port of Safaga overlooking the Red Sea, coming from the port of Port Sudan. And Egyptian media reported that this is the first Egyptian ship to transport stranded people from Sudan.
Thousands of Egyptian citizens have crossed the Egyptian-Sudanese land border since the start of the clashes in Sudan in the middle of last month, and Egypt has returned hundreds of stranded citizens by air.
For his part, a spokesman for the International Organization for Migration of the United Nations said today: “More than 700,000 people are now displaced in Sudan as a result of the clashes between the army and the Rapid Support Forces, and the organization added that the number of displaced people has doubled over the past week.”
For his part, the spokesman for the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Farhan Haq, condemned the looting of a major compound of the World Food Program in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, at the weekend, stressing that the United Nations agencies and all their partners in the humanitarian field were affected by the widespread looting. He said that the Secretary-General reaffirmed the need for the parties to protect and respect workers in humanitarian facilities, including hospitals, and called on the UN spokesman to protect civilians and civilian infrastructure in order to save lives, and to give priority to meeting the needs of the besieged Sudanese people amid a humanitarian disaster.
