Joly Tells Canadians in Sudan to Shelter in Place as ‘Dire’ Clashes Close Airport

Joly Tells Canadians in Sudan to Shelter in Place as ‘Dire’ Clashes Close Airport
Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly rises during question period in Ottawa on Jan. 31, 2023. Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press
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Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly says Canada has no means of evacuating citizens from Sudan, where violence has drastically escalated between the country’s army and its rival paramilitary force.

The streets of the capital of Khartoum were generally calm a week ago, but a skirmish over a planned transition to democratic rule escalated into raging battles between the two groups.