Australian officials are battling to help more than a hundred citizens left in war-torn Sudan who face significant challenges trying to leave the country.
Assistant Foreign Affairs Minister Tim Watts says the government is tracking 152 Australians still in Sudan and is working with partner countries that have officials on the ground.
“The situation that we confront in assisting those people is a challenging one,” he told ABC TV on Sunday.
“There’s not an Australian embassy in Sudan, communications infrastructure is patchy at best.”
Movement in Sudan is hampered by limited access to transport, while some of the Australians in the country might be reluctant to leave for family reasons….