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as fighting between the army and a paramilitary group shows no signs of ending. the violence has been happening for more than a week, worsening the country s already desperate humanitarian crisis. these are pictures of a spanish diplomatic personnel and citizens being evacuated overnight. a number of other countries have also moved their diplomatic staff to safety, but foreign civilians have been reporting difficulties trying to leave the country. some have been travelling by road in convoys heading to port sudan on the red sea, as well as north to the border with egypt. we can get the thoughts now of a sudanese born writer and broadcaster based here in london with family still in the country, thank you for taking the time to talk to us. how are yourfamily right taking the time to talk to us. how are your family right now, what are they telling you? it’s are your family right now, what are they telling you? they telling you? it s an incredibly dire situation. they tellin ....
the head of the un has called on the security council to do these on the security council to do are live pictures of ita citizens these are live pictures of italian citizens arriving in rome, the italian capital. as we have been saying here on bbc news, it s been difficult for many countries to evacuate their citizens with a growing list of countries having chartered flights, brought on ships to evacuate diplomats and citizens from the sudan capital khartoum as the fighting continues there, into its second week in fact. there has been some criticism of the uk government response to uk citizens in particular the fact that the uk government evacuated diplomats and their families government evacuated diplomats and theirfamilies but government evacuated diplomats and their families but has yet to start to properly evacuating british citizens from khartoum. bbc understands a small british military team has landed in sudan to assess potential evacuation options. what we are s ....
The weekend. but we are hearing increasingly desperate tales from inside sudan, for example, one british businessman described it as a nightmare to the bbc. the uk government says around 2000 of its citizens have registered with embassies there but the actual number of britons in the country could be nearer 4000. it s notjust britons. take, for example, nigeria. there are around 5000 of their citizens, most of them students. its government says it s working to get them out by road. meanwhile kenya has around 3000 citizens in the country. this image is of indonesian s on a bus out of khartoum. getting out of the country isn t easy, as we know. some options via road, by ethiopia, chad and egypt. another option is port sudan, which you can see here on the map. a lot of people are trying to get in on cars under the vehicles from khartoum up to port sudan. cars and other vehicles. at thatjourney ....
Now, where are they going? well, they re going north to egypt or they re also trying to get out through ethiopia. south sudan. and chad. i want to show you these foreigners. they have made it to port sudan, which is one of the areas where they are trying to get to. but it has been a horrendous journey for a lot of them. take a look on the map where port sudan is. now, if i highlight this route from khartoum up to port sudan, that is over 800 kilometres. and we heard earlier the un saying that it had taken some of their people over 30 hours to get there. we understand that there are some british royal navy vessels heading there to try and get people out. but all the time, maryam, the conflict going on and as you can imagine, people are getting desperate and some of those people are taking risks to try and get out of the country. let s ta ke let s take you back to rome now and that plane we were watching a few minutes ago carrying citizens of italy. minutes ago carrying citizens of ital ....