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Added on the 07/09/2019 15:20:35 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
Some 245 French and foreign nationals evacuated from Sudan land at Roissy Charles-de-Gaulle airport in a plane chartered by the French authorities. IMAGES
A ship carrying hundreds of evacuees from Sudan arrives in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Multiple nations scramble to evacuate embassy staff and citizens by road, air and sea from chaos-torn Sudan, where fighting between the army and paramilitaries has killed hundreds. IMAGES
A new flight carrying evacuees from from Taliban-controlled Afghanistan lands in Paris at midday. Some 2,000 French nationals and Afghans have been evacuated by France, via a military base in Abu Dhabi, since the Apagan military operation began a week ago, but French authorities say the mission will end on August 31 if the United States sticks to a plan to pull its troops. IMAGES
A UK military plane lands in Brize Norton with evacuees from Afghanistan onboard. The Taliban took effective control of the country Sunday when president Ashraf Ghani fled and the insurgents walked into Kabul with no opposition. It capped a staggeringly fast rout of Afghanistan's major cities in just 10 days, achieved with relatively little bloodshed, following two decades of war that claimed hundreds of thousands of lives. IMAGES
Evacuees continue to arrive in Nassau by ferry as they scramble their belongings and escape areas destroyed by Hurricane Dorian. Authorities in the Bahamas have updated the death toll to 45, with police calling for the public to register details of the many people still missing. IMAGES