Philippines’ Presidential Communications Office said on Thursday that 409 Filipino citizens caught in the fierce fighting in Sudan have crossed the border and are now in Egypt. “More buses of Filipino evacuees are expected,” Philippines’ Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) spokeswoman Teresita Daza said in a statement, without elaborating. Daza said that Philippine Ambassador to Egypt Ezzedin Tago welcomed the first batch of 51 Filipino evacuees at Egypt’s Argeen border. According to the Presidency, of the 409 Filipinos, some 335 overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) and family members left Khartoum, the capital of Sudan, on April 26 for Egypt via Wadi Halfa Highway. Another 35 OFWs and 15 students were safely evacuated to Egypt with the help of Filipinos in Sudan as well as personnel from the Department of Migrant Workers (DMW).
