Diplomats and nationals from the UK, US, France and China are to be evacuated from Sudan by air as fighting there continues, a statement from the Sudanese army says.
According to the BBC, Army chief Fattah al-Burhan agreed to facilitate and secure their evacuation “in the coming hours”, it said.
He is locked in a bitter power struggle with the leader of a rival paramilitary faction, the Rapid Support Forces.
Hundreds of people have been killed in a week of fighting across the country.
Previous plans to evacuate foreign nationals have not been implemented because of safety fears.
A statement from the army said British, US, French and Chinese nationals and diplomats would be evacuated by air on board military transport planes from the capital, Khartoum.
Saudi Arabia has also announced it is arranging the evacuation of its citizens and nationals of “brotherly” countries.
The Sudanese army said Saudi Arabia’s diplomatic mission had already been evacuated by land to the coastal city of Port Sudan and from there by air to Saudi Arabia. Jordan’s diplomatic mission will be next to be secured, it added.
