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In a statement, the DFA said as of Friday noon , 496Filipinos were able to get out of the capital city, Khartoum, where the heavy fighting between the Sudanese military and paramilitary forces took place.
“There have been delays in the processing at the Egyptian border due to the influx of evacuees,” it added.The evacuees’ travel time from Khartoum to Argeen, Egypt—their initial stop—was about 24 to 36 hours, including processing time at the border. The Philippine government struggled to evacuate Filipinos in Khartoum due to scarcity in evacuation buses and whooping rental prices that have reached P1.5 million each.
“DFA teams in Athens, Jeddah, and at the Egypt-Sudan border have been assisting Filipinos from Khartoum and are making arrangements for their repatriation via the next available flights,” DFA said. A total 340 Filipinos have arrived in Egypt after being evacuated by the Philippine government from strife-torn Sudan.
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