On Sunday, Dutch Foreign Minister Wopke Hoekstra announced that the first group of Dutch citizens had been evacuated from Sudan. Hoekstra stated that a "handful" of Dutch citizens were
able to leave Khartoum on a French plane in what he called a "very complex operation" with the assistance of France, Germany, and other countries.
He hoped that a larger group would be evacuated on Sunday night, using the two military planes the Netherlands had dispatched to Jordan last week to assist with evacuation efforts. According to the Dutch government, about 150 Dutch citizens have requested evacuation. Photo by Christopher Michel from San Francisco, USA, Wikimedia commons.