Omani citizens evacuated from violence-hit Sudan

Muscat: A large number of Omani citizens were evacuated from violence-hit Sudan on Wednesday. Officials said that many Omani families and Sudanese residents arrived in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia following their evacuation from strife-torn country on Wednesday.

Consulate General of the Sultanate of Oman in Jeddah, in a statement said: “Counsellor Saif Al Amri, Deputy Consul General, and Awad Raafit, First Secretary of the Consulate General of the Sultanate of Oman in Jeddah, received some Omani families and Sudanese residents in Jeddah after they were evacuated from Sudan.”

The Omanis were evacuated along with 2,148 persons, including 114 Saudi citizens and 2,034 individuals belonging to 62 nationalities.

The Saudi Press Agency, (SPA), said: “In continuation of the evacuation efforts made by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia under the directives of the Kingdom’s leadership, several evacuees arrived from the Republic of Sudan to the city of Jeddah on Wednesday on a Kingdom’s ship, which included 13 Saudi citizens and 1,674 individuals of the following nationalities (Sultanate of Oman, Syria, Libya, Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Lebanon, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Palestine, Mauritania, Yemen, United States of America, Canada, Germany, United Kingdom, Switzerland, Ireland, France, Netherlands, Armenia, Hungary, Sweden, Turkey, Ethiopia, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Senegal, Tanzania, Djibouti, Cape Verde, Congo, Madagascar, Ivory Coast, Somalia, South Africa, Botswana, Malawi, Croatia, Nicaragua, Liberia, South Sudan, Kenya, Uganda, Philippines, Afghanistan, India, Indonesia, Zimbabwe, Pakistan, Chad, Bangladesh, Niger, Sri Lanka and Thailand).”

It also said that Saudi Arabia is working to meet all needs of foreign nationals in preparation for departures to their respective countries.