All Japanese who wished to evacuate have left conflict-torn Sudan, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said Tuesday.
In addition to those who departed on a Self-Defense Forces plane, another eight Japanese nationals and their families have left Sudan, completing the evacuation, Kishida told reporters at his office.
On Monday, an SDF plane airlifted 45 Japanese residents and their families from Port Sudan in the country’s northeast to Djibouti.
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