- Friday, April 25, 2025
By: Shubham Ghosh
Prime minister Narendra Modi will chair a high-level meeting to review the situation of Indian nationals stuck in the north African nation of Sudan where violent clashes have broken out between the army and paramilitary forces, resulting in deaths of more than 300 and injuries to more than 3,000.
Government sources confirmed the news.
On Thursday (20), India said that the situation in Sudan is “very tense” and it is focusing on ensuring the safety and well-being of the Indian community in that country, including working on contingency plans and possible evacuation.
One Indian was killed on Saturday (15), when the clashes started, by a stray bullet in Khartoum, the capital of Sudan.
The city has witnessed some of the fiercest fighting with air strikes and tanks firing in densely populated areas. Several Indians said that they were spending sleepless nights and with shortages of food, water and electricity.
A political controversy was also triggered in India by the fact that at least 31 members of the Hakki Pikki tribe in the southern state of Karnataka remained stranded in Sudan. Siddaramaiah, a former chief minister of the poll-bound state accused the Modi government of doing little for them, which saw India’s external affairs minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar hitting back at him alleging that he was doing politics when lives were at stake.
The opposition Indian National Congress, to which Siddaramaiah belongs, countered the foreign minister over his reaction with one leader saying that the former CM had raised a genuine concern.
