Efforts to bring Canadians home from Sudan will continue for as long as possible amid escalating violence and deteriorating safety conditions, federal Defence Minister Anita Anand said Saturday. cdnpoli
She declined to comment on other options, but said steps taken by other allied countries may guide Canada’s efforts.
Canada’s evacuation efforts ramped up later than some allied countries and now look to continue slightly longer. Britain said it was ending its evacuation flights Saturday after demand for spots on the planes had declined. Officials there say more than 1,500 people have been flown out of the country so far.
More than 50,000 refugees — mostly women and children — have crossed over the western border to Chad, Egypt, South Sudan and the Central African Republic, the United Nations said, raising fears of wider instability. Ethnic fighting and turmoil has scarred South Sudan and the Central African Republic while Chad’s own democratic transition has stalled after a coup.
Airlifts from the country have also posed challenges, with a Turkish evacuation plane hit by gunfire outside Khartoum on Friday.
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