The National Emergency Management Agency–NEMA has said that the Federal Government has so far evacuated a total of 2,246 Nigerians from Sudan using 12 flights.
It, however, stated that the evacuation exercise would continue, stressing that efforts were being made to engage more Nigerian carriers to join in airlifting stranded citizens in the war-torn African country.
NEMA disclosed this in a statement issued in Abuja by its Head, Press Unit, Manzo Ezekiel, noting that it also dispatched food items to evacuees to help ameliorate their plights.
According to the agency, the food items were meant to cater for the Nigerian citizens, while the ongoing evacuation exercise was being strengthened.