(CNN) — The Sudanese Armed Forces announced, Thursday, that 177 Egyptian soldiers, who were trapped in the country due to the ongoing battles, returned safely to Egypt.
This came in a statement by the Sudanese Armed Forces, in which it said: “Today, in coordination between the Sudanese and Egyptian sides, 177 technical staff from the Egyptian Air Force were evacuated to the Arab Republic of Egypt from Dongola Airport (northern Sudan) via four Egyptian military transport planes.”
In its statement, the Sudanese Armed Forces stated that this Egyptian force was part of a “training protocol signed between the two countries in 2018.”
For his part, the Egyptian representative, Mustafa Bakri, commented on his official Twitter page, saying: “The arrival of the first batch of Egyptian officers and soldiers who were detained by the Rapid Support Forces in Sudan is a new testimony to the political leadership and the Egyptian state apparatus that succeeded where others failed. Egypt does not give up.” In her children, and she did the impossible to save them.. The first batch arrived at Cairo Airport, and the rest will come.. The next step, we hope that the students and the rest of the Egyptian community in Sudan will arrive.
