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Sudanese Army Rescues Stranded University of Khartoum Students Four Days After Clashes Break Out
Sudanese Army Rescues Stranded University of Khartoum Students Four Days After Clashes Break Out
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The Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) have rescued the students, professors and employees of the University of Khartoum (UofK) stranded inside the university campus in the capital’s center on late Tuesday, four days after clashes began.
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The Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) have rescued all the students, professors and employees of the University of Khartoum (UofK) stranded inside the university campus in the capital’s center on late Tuesday, four days after clashes began between the country’s national army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), SAF has said.The army shared footage on social media of its military personnel evacuating the stranded students and employees through a hole in the campus wall before transporting them in military vehicles to areas outside Khartoum City’s center.The University of Khartoum is located near Sudan’s Ministry of Defense, the headquarters of the General Command of the SAF and the Republican Palace, as well as a number of ministries including the ministry of Foreign Affairs. This area has played witness to fighting with heavy weapons and occasional aerial bombardment, making it extremely difficult for those trapped there to get out unless a truce were to take place and open safe corridors for them.On Tuesday, it was reported that at least 66 of those locked up inside the UofK campus had found a way to flee to the al-Mazad neighborhood in northern Khartoum - one of the three regions of Khartoum that sits across the Blue Nile River from the university - but there were still 22 others trapped inside the campus.The original 88 people who were stranded inside the UofK included 20 employees and five female students, according to the detained students, who appealed for help via viral videos on social media.One trapped student was killed and another was seriously injured after an exchange of gunfire in the area around the university. The student, a fourth-year at the Faculty of Arts named Khaled Abdel Moneim, was buried inside the Khartoum university campus on Monday, a day after he was shot down while trying to find a path out to lead others to safety.Clashes between the Sudanese regular army and the Rapid Support Forces, led by deputy chairman of Sudan's Transitional Sovereign Council, General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, aka Hemetti, broke out on Saturday morning, with the epicenter in the Sudanese capital city of Khartoum.World Health Organization (WHO) Director General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Tuesday that the Sudanese Ministry of Health Emergency Operations Center had informed the WHO that about 270 people have been killed and more than 2,600 have been injured in clashes in Sudan.
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Sudanese Army Rescues Stranded University of Khartoum Students Four Days After Clashes Break Out
12:20 19.04.2023 (Updated: 17:44 27.04.2023) Muhammad Nooh Osman
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At least 88 individuals have been trapped inside the University of Khartoum campus since the beginning of armed clashes in the country's capital on Saturday. Some of those who were stranded managed to flee the campus on Tuesday afternoon, whereas others remained inside as fighting with heavy weapons continued around them.
The Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) have rescued all the students, professors and employees of the University of Khartoum (UofK) stranded inside the university campus in the capital’s center on late Tuesday, four days after
clashes began between the country’s national army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), SAF has said.
The army shared footage on social media of its military personnel evacuating the stranded students and employees through a hole in the campus wall before transporting them in military vehicles to areas outside Khartoum City’s center.
"On Tuesday, 18 April, the Armed Forces carried out an evacuation of students who had been stranded at the University of Khartoum for four days, during a hit-and-run, in which the Rapid Support Forces targeted these students as human shields," the SAF said. "The forces took precautions to preserve their safety until they were completely evacuated safely through an opening at the bottom of the wall, so that the operation could be completed without any losses."
The University of Khartoum is located near Sudan’s Ministry of Defense, the headquarters of the General Command of the SAF and the Republican Palace, as well as a number of ministries including the ministry of Foreign Affairs. This
area has played witness to fighting with heavy weapons and occasional aerial bombardment, making it extremely difficult for those trapped there to get out unless a truce were to take place and open safe corridors for them.
On Tuesday, it was
reported that at least 66 of those locked up inside the UofK campus had found a way to flee to the al-Mazad neighborhood in northern Khartoum - one of the three regions of Khartoum that sits across the Blue Nile River from the university - but there were still 22 others trapped inside the campus.
The original 88 people who were stranded inside the UofK included 20 employees and five female students, according to the detained students, who appealed for help via viral videos on social media.
One trapped student was killed and another was seriously injured after an exchange of gunfire in the area around the university. The student, a fourth-year at the Faculty of Arts named Khaled Abdel Moneim, was buried inside the Khartoum university campus on Monday, a day after he was shot down while trying to find a path out to lead others to safety.
Clashes between the Sudanese regular army and the Rapid Support Forces, led by deputy chairman of Sudan's Transitional Sovereign Council, General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, aka Hemetti, broke out on Saturday morning, with the epicenter in the Sudanese capital city of Khartoum.
World Health Organization (WHO) Director General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Tuesday that the Sudanese Ministry of Health Emergency Operations Center had informed the WHO that about
270 people have been killed and more than 2,600 have been injured in clashes in Sudan.
