East Africa: Somalia Mulls Evacuating Citizens As Fighting Rages in Sudan

The Somali government is making plans to evacuate its citizens from Sudan if the fighting between rival forces there escalates.

“We are discussing, in case there is an evacuation, how they could be moved out of this country,” Mohamed Sheikh Isak, the Somali ambassador to Sudan, told VOA on Monday.

“There are no planes. There is a plan we are working on which is, if we cannot evacuate them through the airports, to rent buses and move them out of the city, and take them to the neighboring countries…