France evacuated 538 people, including 209 French people, Emmanuel Macron announced on Tuesday. The president, who was speaking at the start of a defense council at the Elysée, also gave “reassuring news” from the French soldier injured during this evacuation operation, whose “life is not more at risk”. Sudan is ravaged by the violence of airstrikes and urban fighting.
The conflict erupted on April 15 between the army of General Abdel Fattah al-Burhane, Sudan’s de facto ruler, and his deputy-turned-rival, General Mohamed Hamdane Daglo, who commands the much-feared paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). ). The fighting has already left more than 420 people dead and 3,700 injured, according to UN agencies, and many Sudanese now face severe shortages of water, food, medicine and fuel, as well as power and internet outages.