Team Blitz India
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi chaired a high-level meeting to review the situation concerning Indians in violence-hit Sudan.
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, Air Force and Navy chiefs, top officials of foreign and defence ministries and senior diplomats attended the meeting on April 21. The meeting was held virtually. Jaishankar is currently on a visit to Guyana.
India has said the situation in Sudan is “very tense” and it is focusing on ensuring the safety and well-being of the Indian community, including working on contingency plans and possible evacuation.
As part of efforts for a ceasefire through diplomatic processes, the External Affairs Minister Jaishankar has taken up the worsening situation in Sudan with United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.
More than 330 people have been killed so far in the violent power struggle which broke out last weekend between two previously allied leaders of Sudan’s ruling military junta.
The fiercest battles between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have been in and around Khartoum and in Darfur, still scarred by a protracted conflict that ended three years ago. The latest violence was triggered by disagreement over an internationally backed plan to form a new civilian government.
