The cost of renting a bus to evacuate people from war-torn Sudan and bring them to Egypt has gone up to as much as $30,000 or about P1.5 million, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said Thursday.
“We won’t be tight-fisted, we will do everything–whatever it takes to get the bus,” said Foreign Affairs Undersecretary Eduardo Jose de Vega in a radio interview.
The government has been struggling to evacuate Filipinos from Sudan not only because of the high cost but due to a scarcity of available buses.Nevertheless, more than 400 of the 700 registered Filipinos in Sudan were either already taken to or on their way to the border with Egypt. He said the embassy asked the Egyptian authorities to allow Filipinos entry into their country despite not having the necessary visa, which he said was impossible to process in Khartoum.
The Palace on Thursday reported that 409 Filipinos have been evacuated from Sudan so far. Some 335 overseas Filipino workers andfamily members left Khartoum on April 26 for Egypt through the Wadi Halfa Highway. Senior Defense Undersecretary Carlito Galvez, officer-in-charge, said he has already coordinated with the DFA to have the Defense attachés from the United Arab Emirates and Israel help the Philippine Embassy in Cairo in the evacuation of Filipinos from Sudan.
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