PM Modi to chair meeting to review situation of stranded Indians in Sudan

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will chair a high-level meeting to review the situation of stranded Indians in violence-hit Sudan. Sources gave this information. In view of the current situation in Sudan, the Ministry of External Affairs of India is constantly making efforts at various levels to ensure the safety of Indians stranded there.
According to sources, in this high-level meeting, the Prime Minister will review the situation in Sudan and all the steps being taken to ensure the safety of Indians. Actually, India is ready to evacuate its citizens from Sudan safely, but there is no word about this. The decision will be taken only after looking at the local situation and talking to the Indians trapped there.
31 Indian nationals belonging to Karnataka are currently stranded in Sudan. On April 15, Sudan awoke to the sound of explosions and gunfire, the culmination of a weeks-long power struggle between two generals who will seize power in the country in 2021 following a military coup.
The two generals – Abdel Fattah al-Burhan who heads Sudan’s army and Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, commander of the paramilitary Rapid Support Force (RSF) – are former allies.
The two joined forces and worked together to topple former Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir in 2019 and played a key role in the 2021 military coup.
However, talks to integrate the RSF into Sudan’s military as part of a plan to restore civilian rule in the country turned hostile over who would command whom in the new regime.
–IANS