A C-130 aircraft of the Greek Air Force carrying 20 Greeks , 19 foreign nationals and 6 dogs flew directly from Sudan’s capital Khartoum to Athens and landed at Elefsina Air Force base in western Attica late on Thursday. Together with the human evacuees were also six dogs. A Greek …
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Greek, Finnish, Romanian evacuees from Sudan land in Athens
A C-27J Spartan transport aircraft carrier of the Hellenic Air Force landed at the Tanagra air base northern Athens short after 4 o’ clock on Wednesday afternoon. On board were 16 Greek nationals, 1 Greek-Cypriot woman, 9 Romanians and 8 Finnish who were evacuated from Sudan. Among the evacuees who …
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First group of Greeks from Sudan arrive in Athens
Seventeen people, evacuees from Sudan, arrived at the 112 Combat Wing in Elefsina on Tuesday morning. After being evacuated from Sudan, they departed from Djibouti on Monday and made their way to Greece via Aswan in Egypt. Among the evacuees are 13 Greek nationals and four foreign spouses of Greek …
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23 Greeks evacuated from Sudan; FM thanks Italy, France, Germany for assistance.
A total of 23 Greeks have been successfully evacuated from Sudan so far, in convoys organized by France, Italy and Germany. Among them are five Greeks evacuated on a flight of an Italian military aircraft. All evacuees have been transported to Djibouti, where they will pick up by Greek military …
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Greece deploys transport aircraft for evacuation of Greeks and Cypriots from Sudan
Two military transport aircraft C-130 and C-27j left Greece on Sunday afternoon for Egypt in the context of the operation to rescue Greek but also Cypriot citizens from the civil war in Sudan, a total of 120-150 citizens wanting to leave the country. Earlier today, Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias had …
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Greece’s Alternate FM states “export of Predator spyware to Sudan”
Greek Alternate Foreign Minister Miltiadis Varvitsiotis admitted on Wednesday that the Intellexa’s Predator spyware was exported from Greece to Sudan. It is the firs time an official admits such an export and thus in time when a civil war takes place in the central African country and 150 Greeks are …
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Greece joins EU efforts to evacuate civilians from Sudan, incl. 150 Greeks
The Greek government is actively engaged to evacuate Greek citizens from Sudan, however, the current circumstances in the country in the bring of civil war are grim. Nonetheless, there joint European Union efforts to evacuate some 1,000 European citizens once the conditions allow it. “If a safe way out is …
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Sudan: Dramatic hours for Greeks trapped in Church; two injured
A group of Greeks have been trapped in a church in Khartoum since Holy Saturday morning as the capital of Sudan is in the middle of heavy fight between the government and paramilitary groups. Two Greeks were injured when they left the church on Saturday. They are in hospital but …
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