PARIS (AFP) – PhD research at Leila Oulkebous, one of France’s top universities, was going well when the explosion began.
Ulquebos had decided to focus her fieldwork on Sudan when violence broke out there.
In 2019, the army and its rival Radical Support Force emirs came to power after popular uprisings overthrew longtime tyrant Omar al-Bashir. They began this month amid tensions over a new plan to restore civil rule.
Urquebos, who was studying the impact of dams on transboundary rivers, lived in the capital Khartoum, and her house was shaken by the bombing. The British government has come under increasing criticism for its failure to airlift civilians. On Tuesday, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak defended the government’s approach, saying diplomats were initially evacuated “because they were targeted”.
The British government has since said 301 people have been evacuated from Sudan on four UK flights in the past 24 hours, with four more planned for Wednesday.The UK will keep flights operational for as long as possible. intend to do something. Additionally, a “rapid deployment team” of British officials is in Port Sudan to assess potential evacuations at sea.
The Foreign Office said UK passport holders would be eligible, with “priority given to families with children and the elderly or with medical conditions”.
Officials say there are up to 4,000 British citizens in Sudan, of whom 2,000 have registered for possible evacuation. The White House said on Monday that thousands of Americans stranded in Sudan are trying to flee fighting in the East African country after the U.S. Embassy evacuated all diplomatic staff over the weekend and closed. He said the United States was assisting him remotely.
The Biden administration is considering several options to help American civilians escape from Sudan.
One option under consideration, according to two U.S. officials, is to send U.S. Navy ships to the Red Sea or to anchor in Port Sudan en route to the Red Sea and take the Americans to Jeddah or elsewhere. It is said to go. Officials said it would depend on the security situation and whether the ship could dock safely.
U.S. officials said the military has developed another option for acquiring Americans. This includes the use of airfields used by some European countries to fly their citizens. To date, they have not been asked to do so, officials said.
The officials spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss confidential matters.
