The first group of evacuees, consisting of 557 people, arrived in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, by sea on Wednesday morning. They are to be repatriated to Indonesia in batches.

In the second round of evacuation, which took place on the same day, a team led by the Indonesian embassy safely moved 328 citizens, mostly university students, from Khartoum to a safe zone in Port Sudan by road. Jakarta said the evacuees would wait in Port Sudan until they could be transported to Jeddah either by sea or on military aircraft.

In total, the Foreign Ministry noted, 897 of the 937 citizens residing in Sudan had been evacuated. Fifteen of the remaining group had left Sudan on their own, and the 25 others had declined to leave for family reasons.

“I would like to thank the Sudanese authorities, who have helped in the evacuation process, [as well as] the Saudi government for its facilitation,” Foreign Minister Retno LP Marsudi said on Wednesday.

The ministry had previously said that more than 1,200 Indonesian nationals were registered with the embassy in Khartoum as residents of Sudan, but Retno later noted that only 937 were in the country at the start of the conflict, as some citizens had returned to Indonesia for Idul Fitri or were in Saudi Arabia for umrah (minor haj).

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On Wednesday, the Indonesian team also safely transported six Australian nationals and one Sudanese national from Khartoum to Port Sudan.

In the 11 days of the ongoing conflict between Sudanese army chief Abdel Fattah al Burhan and his deputy, Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, commander of the powerful paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), two three-day ceasefires have been announced, both of which were meant to allow foreign states to rescue their citizens and open humanitarian corridors.

The first ceasefire was announced on Friday before Eid celebrations, while the second, which started on Tuesday, was brokered by the United States.

But on Wednesday, the second day of the latest ceasefire, witnesses in Sudan said air strikes were still rife and reports circulated that the RSF had seized some of the country’s major oil refineries and power plants, Reuters reported.

“The pause was not fully upheld, with attacks on headquarters, attempts to gain ground, air strikes and explosions in different areas of the capital,” United Nations special representative Volker Perthes told the Security Council on Tuesday.

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On Wednesday, Saudi Arabia admitted a ship carrying nearly 1,700 evacuees from Sudan from over 50 countries. The country has admitted thousands of civilians from Sudan since the conflict began.

More than 10,000 civilians have also left Sudan in a massive exodus to Egypt over the past five days, Cairo’s authorities have said, on top of some 20,000 people moving into Chad.

In Cyprus, some 1,600 kilometers away from Sudan, a British military transport plane has been assisting in the evacuation process.

The conflict between Sudan’s military and the RSF began on April 15 after months of tension caused by a dispute over plans to merge the two armed forces. While the two institutions were previously allies, the RSF’s power has grown significantly in recent years, causing discomfort for Abdel Fattah al Burhan, the Sudanese military general, who has effectively been leading the country.