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FG to Evacuate 5,500 Stranded Nigerians in Sudan by Road

Tare Magbei
Tare Magbei
Published: June 14, 2025
Last updated: June 14, 2025
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5,500 Stranded Nigerians in Sudan set for evacuation

The Federal government has revealed plans to evacuated stranded Nigerians in Sudan by road.

Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, disclosed that arrangements have been concluded to evacuate over 5,500 Nigerians stranded in Sudan by road.

The disclosure is coming on the heels of intense fighting between rival forces in the North Eastern African country.

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Sudan shares border with seven other countries including Libya, Egypt, Chad, the Central African Republic, South Sudan, Ethiopia, and Eritrea.

As of Sunday, Saudi Arabia has evacuated 91 of its citizens along with 66 nationals from 12 other countries which included Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Tunisia, Pakistan, India, Bulgaria, Bangladesh, the Philippines, Canada, and Burkina Faso from Sudan.

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Onyeama, who spoke on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Sunday, said the ministry received information that an estimated 5,500 citizens made up students, workers and others were ready to be evacuated.

On the option to evacuate the stranded Nigerians by road, the Minister said the plan became imperative following the attack on the flight of the French rescue team in Sudan.

He said, “We have been given the cost estimate and all the details. They gave us a figure of 5,500 who are ready for evacuation. Obviously, what you need in a situation like this is a place where everybody can congregate before you start moving them out.

“Because the airports, as you pointed out in your report, is out of commission. The only viable way out is by road. Of course, it’s totally safe. So we want to require the government to provide some security and a safe corridor out.

“Our situation is particularly challenging because the numbers are so great. Some of the countries like the US and European countries have started evacuating. But what they’ve been evacuating were actually their diplomatic staff.

“They haven’t been able to start evacuating their citizens there. We can’t evacuate all our diplomatic staff at the moment because they need to also coordinate the evacuation of all those students that we’re talking about.

“So essentially, where we are at the moment is trying to get the authorization from the Sudanese government to undertake this long journey and for them to provide some security. Now we don’t want to take any risk or risk the lives of any Nigerian.

“Because from what we saw yesterday, for instance, how the French in trying to evacuate their citizens came under fire. We don’t want to expose our brothers and sisters to that danger as well.

“We are doing everything we can to get the requisite approval for the Sudanese government at the very highest level. I was in touch today with somebody in the Office of the President and made a formal request to have a safe corridoronyevacuate our people. And they confirmed that they had received it and they would be giving us attention.

“The three options available to us include the Egyptian border, Port Sudan and Ethiopian border,” he stated.

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