Khartoum: According to the Dutch Foreign Ministry, the Netherlands has closed its embassy in Khartoum, the capital of Sudan. Diplomats will still conduct business remotely.
"The Netherlands Embassy in Khartoum is closed. From the area and the Netherlands, work will continue as much as possible, the ministry stated in a statement posted on its website.
60 Dutch citizens had been evacuated from Sudan, according to Wopke Hoekstra, the foreign minister of the Netherlands.
In order to later be able to evacuate people from Sudan, the Netherlands had earlier sent a few military aircraft to Jordan.
Due to the tense security situation in the country, the Netherlands and a number of other nations, including Germany, Greece, France, and Spain, have been evacuating their citizens and diplomats from Sudan.
The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group and the Sudanese regular armed forces engaged in violent clashes on April 15, with Khartoum serving as their focal point. Government forces attacked the RSF's bases while claiming that they had committed mutiny.
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The RSF was dissolved by an order from Sudan's military chief, Abdel Fattah Burhan. For the three days leading up to the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr, the parties reached an understanding.
The Sudanese Health Ministry reported last week that 600 or so people have already perished in the clashes. In the meantime, the World Health Organisation reported over 400 fatalities and over 3,500 injuries.
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Mohamed al-Gharawy, who worked as the administrative attaché for Egypt in Sudan, was killed in Khartoum, the Egyptian Foreign Ministry confirmed earlier on Monday. Before the ministry momentarily denied his death, the Sudanese armed forces initially claimed that al-Gharawy had been killed by RSF officials.
