Abd al-Latif has earlier said that the number of the Sudanese nationals in South Sudan is around 50.000 persons, among them 3000 facing hard situations and willing to return home.
Advertisement
Despite repeated warnings from the United Nations, South Sudan’s leader President Kiir and his deputy Riek Machar have failed to peacefully lead the country.
“In addition to providing food assistance to displaced people in Juba, which is our normal role, WFP has also sheltered some 3, 000 people in our main office compound, mostly women and children who fled for their lives as fighting raged around us”, said Luma.
“Although equipped for combat, these additional personnel are deployed for the objective of protecting USA citizens and property”, Obama wrote in a letter to Congress released by the White House.
“We remain very anxious about the potential for the resumption of violence and spillover into other parts of the country”, said Ladsous. But residents remain tense and many foreigners have been leaving.
Although a ceasefire has held since late Monday, the United Nations has warned of the possibility of fresh fighting in the city.
Specially chartered planes have been flying foreign nationals out of South Sudan since Wednesday.
“We didn’t sleep or step out as long as there was fighting”.
Some Sudanese told AFP they had suffered heavy losses because of the fighting.
The return flights would be only up to New Delhi, the statement said. According to the news, Around 500 Indians are believed to be stranded in South Sudan, where a threadbare ceasefire is in place.
The move by western countries to evacuate their citizens has been seen by some analysts as abandoning the world’s youngest of the country at the time of need.
Some shops opened up on Thursday and more people were on the streets.
In government’s assessment this was an opportune moment to arrange for the evacuation, especially since the ceasefire is holding and there is a lull in hostilities.
There are new reports that South Sudan authorities are blocking some citizens, including those with USA or Canadian dual nationality, from leaving the country, authorities said. Those are just two of South Sudan’s sixty ethnic groups, each with its own language, culture and territory – and even within the two big ethnic groups, different sub-groups sometimes find themselves on opposite sides of the fighting.
Advertisement
The latest exchanges were apparently sparked by a shootout between President Kiir’s and Vice President Riek Machar’s bodyguards.
