Since the start of the evacuation mission from Sudan, the Bundeswehr has brought more than 300 people to safety since Sunday. After the landing of two machines, each with 101 and 113 evacuees on board in Jordan on Sunday evening and during the night, “at 2.25 a.m. the third Bundeswehr machine with around 100 people on board” landed in Jordan on Monday morning, said a spokesman for the Bundeswehr Operations Command AFP news agency.
Overall, “both German citizens and members of other nations” were flown out with the three Airbus A400M aircraft. The evacuations “worked well”.
The evacuees return to Germany from Jordan. “The onward journey of the evacuated citizens of other nations will be coordinated with the states concerned,” said the Operations Command.
In the meantime, the first military plane of the Bundeswehr has landed in Berlin with evacuees from Sudan. The Federal Foreign Office announced on Twitter that there were 101 Germans, their families and members of other partner countries on board.
In view of the escalating violence in Khartoum, Germany and numerous other countries had launched evacuation operations for their nationals in the north-east African country, including France, Italy, Saudi Arabia and Turkey. The United States and Great Britain had previously flown out embassy staff from Khartoum.
In Sudan, units of the army and the paramilitary RSF militia have been fighting each other for more than a week. An agreement to integrate the RSF militia into the armed forces had previously failed. More than 420 people have been killed and more than 3,700 injured in the fighting. Several agreed ceasefires were broken.
Green politician Jürgen Trittin warned that the fighting would have serious consequences for the entire region. The fighting not only endangered “the process of transformation into a civilian government in Sudan,” Trittin told the editorial network Germany (Monday editions). “They threaten to further destabilize the entire region through the involvement of Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Libyan civil war parties.” In view of the threatening consequences for the region, “everything must be done to end the fighting.”
