Sudan, National Defence Minister Anita Anand says.Anand did not share details other than saying the evacuation flight occurred on an RCAF C-130 Hercules aircraft.
She promised further details will come in an announcement Thursday morning in Enfield, N.S.“We’re operating almost in real time, and we want to make sure that we have all the details in place,” she said.“We needed to make sure that conditions are safe and secure on the ground, and that we had space on the airfield – that’s actively occurring right now and will continue to occur, making sure that we have the conditions that are in place for not only the flight that I have mentioned, but additional evacuations that we are planning over the next number of days.”About 200 members of the Canadian Armed Forces have deployed to the region along with military planes and ships for evacuation operations.Hundreds of people have been killed in nearly two weeks of conflict between the army and a rival paramilitary force, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which are locked in a power struggle threatening to destabilize the wider region.A shaky 72-hour ceasefire has allowed nations to evacuate their citizens, but it’s set to expire Thursday night.
The United States and African nations are trying to secure an extension.“We are pursuing all options. The situation is extremely dangerous in Sudan and the civilian infrastructure is necessary for any evacuation of non-combatants,” Anand said.Much of the fighting has been focused in the capital Khartoum, where RSF fighters have embedded themselves in residential areas, and the western province of Darfur, where conflict has simmered ever since civil war erupted there two decades ago.Anand said most Canadians are in Khartoum.“The power,.