NEW DELHI: India successfully completed "Operation Kaveri" with a total of around 3,800 Indians evacuated from the strife-torn Sudan.
India intensified Operation Kaveri to rescue stranded citizens from Khartoum and successfully rescued nearly 3800 citizens from war-torn Sudan, according to the Indian embassy in Sudan.
On Friday, an Indian Air Force C-130J flight with 47 stranded Indians took off from Jeddah in a Delhi-bound plane.
An Indian Air Force aircraft carrying stranded Indians landed in the National Capital on Friday. Evacuees thanked the Indian government and the Ministry of External Affairs for rescuing them under Operation Kaveri. The Indian government is carrying out various efforts to rescue the Indians who were struck in the conflict-hit Sudan.
External Affairs Ministry Spokesperson Arindam Bagchi tweeted, "IAF C-130J aircraft with 47 evacuees from Sudan is on its way to Delhi from Jeddah. Nearly 3800 persons have now been rescued from Sudan under #OperationKaveri."
On Thursday, 192 Indians stranded in Sudan landed in Ahmedabad. An Indian Air Force C17 aircraft was used to bring evacuees from Port Sudan to Ahmedabad.
Also on Thursday, Bagchi tweeted, "20 evacuees departed from N'Djamena in two batches of 2 and 18 onboard flights destined for Chennai and Bengaluru respectively. These evacuees had crossed over from Sudan into Chad through the adjoining land border.”
Till Thursday, nine days had passed since the Government of India launched its ambitious rescue mission, "Operation Kaveri" to evacuate stranded Indians in conflict-ridden Sudan.
5 Indian Naval Ships and 16 Indian Air Force aircraft including one from Wadi Sayyidna military airbase were used in the operation.
The Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), the two warring factions in Sudan, agreed to a seven-day ceasefire, according to a statement of the foreign ministry of South Sudan on Tuesday.
According to the statement, the two sides also said that they would send representatives for peace talks "to be held at an agreed venue of their choice." However, neither SAF nor RSF commented on the report on their official channels.
Previous ceasefires were unable to put an end to the violence between the opposing factions. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, the commander of the Sudanese army, and Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, the leader of the RSF, failed to reach an agreement, and in the middle of April, there were violent fights between the two sides that resulted in at least 528 deaths and large-scale migration of refugees from the country.
The UN's refugee agency (UNHCR) warned on Tuesday that more than 800,000 people may migrate to other nations as continuous violence impedes evacuation convoys to bring out people from Sudan's major ports.
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