Qatar sent aid to Sudan, evacuated people by plane

Khartoum, Sudan/Photo: Frédérique Cifuentes / Alamy / Profimedia

A plane from Qatar delivered 40 tons of food aid to Sudan today and transported 150 evacuees as fighting continues led by two opposing army generals.

The Qatari Air Force plane landed in Port Sudan, 670 kilometers northeast of the capital Khartoum, where there is fierce conflict.

The city and port of Port Sudan were spared from the fighting and became one of the few safe transit points used by planes and ships crossing the Red Sea to Jeddah in Saudi Arabia.

The conflict began on April 15 after months of rising tensions between the military, led by General Abdel Fattah Burhan, and the renegade Rapid Support Force (RSF), under the command of General Mohammed Hamdan Dagal.

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