Japan prepares to evacuate citizens from Sudan

Japan’s defense ministry has begun preparations to evacuate its citizens from Sudan amid deadly fighting.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno said, Japan’s foreign minister asked the defense minister to use the Self-Defense Forces’ plane for the evacuation.
About 60 Japanese nationals were in Sudan as of Wednesday, Matsuno told reporters, adding the government was able to contact all of them and none of them were injured.
Heavy gunfire shattered a 24-hour truce in Sudan on Tuesday.
Fighting between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has killed at least 185 people and injured more than 1,800, said U.N. envoy Volker Perthes, amid airstrikes and fighting in Khartoum and strife across Sudan.