Sudan fighting continues: France closes embassy until further notice
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00:00 scramble to evacuate.
00:02 This Italian Air Force plane left Khartoum on Sunday night to airlift more than 100 people
00:07 to safety.
00:08 These and many others of those rescued have been taken to Djibouti, which is around two
00:13 hours by plane from the Sudanese capital.
00:16 Air operations are taking place from small airstrips with Khartoum's main airport out
00:20 of action due to the fighting.
00:23 The EU foreign policy chief said getting people out was challenging.
00:27 "It has been a complex operation and it has been a successful operation.
00:33 First the staff of the European Union, 21 people are already in Europe and many more
00:40 European Union citizens and others are already out of Sudan.
00:46 I cannot give you the concrete figures, more than 1,000 people for sure."
00:52 One evacuee landing in Amman in Jordan said it had been a long ordeal.
00:57 "We moved from an area in Khartoum to another area that is far from the capital, around
01:03 1,200 to 1,300 kilometers away.
01:08 We moved by land, it was difficult, but thank God we were together with the support of the
01:12 Jordanian embassy."
01:16 Evacuations and departures are taking place by air, sea and road.
01:20 people try to escape the continuing fighting in Sudan.
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