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On Saturday, President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. stated that arrangements are being developed by the government to securely extract captive Filipinos from conflict-torn Sudan.

Marcos said in a statement that the Philippine government is gathering more information about the situation there in order to better prepare and determine whether an evacuation is feasible.

“In Sudan, we have roughly 300 people. Unfortunately, there are no operating airports. They are still being attacked,” he declared.

“We are just waiting to get better information as to whether or not it will be safe to bring our evacuees out of Khartoum, perhaps into Cairo,” the chief executive noted.

He clarified that there is currently no known safe land route because the nearest Philippine Embassy is in Egypt, hundreds of miles from Khartoum, the capital of Sudan.

The Department of Foreign Affairs reported on Thursday that at least 86 people have asked to leave the nation or be returned.

The World Health Organization reports that since the fighting between the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) started on April 15, over 400 individuals have perished in the ongoing violence in Sudan.

Anadolu reports, citing a statement made on Saturday by a local doctors’ group, that a 72-hour truce has broken down.

The Central Committee of Sudanese Doctors (CCSD) claimed that hospitals are still being attacked since both sides did not adhere to the terms of the ceasefire.

The CCSD stated that fighting had also broken out near the army headquarters and presidential palace and that it had reached the neighboring cities of Omdurman and Bahri according to an Anadolu correspondent on the ground.

Both parties charged one other with breaking the cease-fire; the army claimed that the RSF was bringing additional troops to Khartoum, while the paramilitary organization claimed that the SAF had attacked its men at various points.

As the two combatants expressed their willingness to open the airports, the process of evacuating foreign diplomats got underway.

According to a statement posted by the SAF on Facebook, army head Gen. Abdel Fattah Burhan had received pleas to permit the evacuation of many nations’ citizens.

The statement claimed, “We are anticipating the process to start in the next few hours as the US, UK, France, and China will provide military planes for the evacuation from Khartoum.”

It also stated that Jordan will take the same path after the Saudi diplomatic post evacuated its citizens through Port Sudan.

Kuwait also declared on Saturday that an “emergency operation” to evacuate its citizens had been started.

All Kuwaitis who wanted to return to the Gulf nation had, according to Foreign Minister Sheikh Salim Abdullah al-Jaber al-Sabah, safely arrived in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and attempts were still being made to bring them to Kuwait.

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