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A German plane airlifted dozens of Canadians out of Sudan Monday, according to Prime MinisterJustin Trudeau, as many citizen continue to try and escape the conflict-ridden nation.

Sudan, National Defence Minister Anita Anand says.Anand did not share details other than saying the evacuation flight occurred on an RCAF C-130 Hercules aircraft. She promised further details will come in an announcement Thursday morning in Enfield, N.S.“We’re operating almost in real time, and we want to make sure that we have all the details in place,” she said.“We needed to make sure that conditions are safe and secure on the ground, and that we had space on the airfield – that’s actively occurring right now and will continue to occur, making sure that we have the conditions that are in place for not only the flight that I have mentioned, but additional evacuations that we are planning over the next number of days.”About 200 members of the Canadian Armed Forces have deployed to the region along with military planes and ships for evacuation operations.Hundreds of people have been killed in nearly two weeks of conflict between the army and a rival paramilitary force, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which are locked in a power struggle threatening to destabilize the wider region.A shaky 72-hour ceasefire has allowed nations to evacuate their citizens, but it’s set to expire Thursday night.

Canadian military personnel including special forces members are already on the ground in Sudan to assist with evacuation efforts as rival military leaders battle for control of the country, multiple sources tell Global News.

Muslims gather to perform the Eid al-Fitr prayer at Amr ibn al-As Mosque during the first day of the Eid al-Fitr in historical center Fustat of Cairo, Egypt on April 21, 2023. Eid al-Fitr marks the end of Ramadan, the Muslim holy month of fasting.

KHARTOUM – Ethiopia says Eritrea has agreed to withdraw its forces from the Ethiopian region of Tigray.

CAIRO – U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin arrived in Sudan Wednesday, the first visit by a senior American official since President Donald Trump’s administration removed the African country from the list of state sponsors of terrorism.Mnuchin landed in Khartoum’s international airport, where he received by acting Finance Minister Heba Mohammed Ali, and U.S.

CAIRO – The U.S. Embassy in Khartoum said Monday that President Donald Trump's administration has removed Sudan from the U.S.

coronavirus deaths have been officially reported.The report, led by the Imperial College London (ICL) COVID-19 Response Team, says that as of Nov. 20, 477 deaths in Khartoum state were reported to be related to COVID-19.It estimates the true figure to be between 14,300 and 17,990 higher than that.The report also estimates that as much as 38 per cent of the population of Khartoum was infected.Dr.

LONDON – The protests that left much of the world in a haze of tear gas last year were slowed by a pandemic – until the death of George Floyd sparked a global uprising against police brutality and racial inequality.From Hong Kong to Khartoum, Baghdad to Beirut, Gaza to Paris and Caracas to Santiago, people took to the streets in 2019 for the pursuits of freedom, sovereignty or simply a life less shackled by hardship while few prospered. It seemed as if the streets were agitated everywhere but the United States.Now, after the death of Floyd, a black man in Minneapolis who died in police custody when a white officer pressed his knee into Floyd's neck for several minutes, protests rage around the globe.

THE HAGUE – An emotion-charged photo of a young man illuminated by cellphone lights as he recites poetry amid a crowd of protesters calling for civilian rule in Sudan won the prestigious World Press Photo award on Thursday.