According to foreign affairs Cabinet Secretary Alfred Mutua, Kenyans in Sudan have been forced to lock themselves inside their homes and are seeking help to return back to the country.
Mutua said that plans to ferry the citizens back home are underway and they are already in talks with Kenya Airways who are on standby.
“We have a big problem in Sudan I am just looking at the reports, bombing is escalating, we have about 3,000 Kenyans stuck in Sudan and they are scared nobody is leaving their house,” he said.
“I want to assure Kenyans we are aligned, we have talked to Kenya Airways and they are ready to bring back Kenyans if things get out of hand.”
Mutua urged Kenyan citizens to always register themselves with the Embassies in the respective diaspora nations, as it aids in easy communication and response in the event chaos erupts.
“Wherever you are, whenever you go overseas please register with the Embassy because you don’t know what will happen. Those who have already registered, we are in touch with them and we have a problem finding those who didn’t,” he said.
“We are going to give a number so that if you have someone there they can call.”
Sudan’s military, on Saturday, engaged in violence for power with the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) Sunday called for an immediate cessation of hostilities between the warring parties in Sudan.
President William Ruto joined Presidents Salva Kiir (South Sudan), Yoweri Museveni (Uganda), Ismail Omar Guelleh (Djibouti) and Hassan Sheikh Mohamud (Somalia) for a virtual meeting of Heads of State to discuss the crisis.
Ruto asked IGAD leaders to take a firm position to restore peace in Khartoum.
The leaders called on the Transitional Sovereign Council General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo to stop the war and return to the negotiation.
IGAD resolved to send Presidents Kiir, President Ruto, and President Guelleh at the earliest possible time to reconcile the conflicting groups.
They said stability in Sudan is key to the social and economic stability of the region.
The conflict, they added, undermines the peace progress achieved over the last four months.
The leaders also asked the two groups to provide a safe corridor for humanitarian assistance in Khartoum and other affected towns.
The army and a paramilitary are fighting over control of the country which has left more than 100 dead.
Fierce clashes have been reported across Sudan as fighting between rival armed factions continues to spread.
Violence between the army and a paramilitary group called the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) continued overnight into its third day.
Nearly 100 people have been killed, a doctors’ union said, and one estimate put the number of injured at 1,100.
Both sides claimed to control key sites in the capital Khartoum, where residents sheltered from explosions.
Earlier on Sunday, they held a temporary ceasefire to allow the wounded to be evacuated, although it was not clear how strictly they stuck to it.
Doctors warned that the situation at hospitals in Khartoum is extremely difficult and that the fighting was stopping both staff and medical supplies from reaching injured people.
The fighting is part of a vicious power struggle within the country’s military leadership, which has escalated into violence between rival factions.
The two men at its center disagree over how the country should transition to civilian rule.
Sudan has been run by generals since a coup overthrew the long-standing authoritarian president, Omar al-Bashir, in 2019.
On Sunday and early Monday, the RSF claimed to occupy sites in the capital Khartoum.
Such as the presidential palace, and
the adjoining city of Omdurman, as well as in the western region of Darfur and Merowe Airport in the north of the country.
But some accounts indicated that the army had regained control of the airport, with the military saying they were dealing with “small pockets of rebels“.
The army has previously denied that the RSF had seized key sites in the capital, and witnesses in the country told Reuters news agency that the army appeared to be making gains after blasting RSF bases with air strikes.
The Sudanese army said it had taken hold of RSF bases in Port Sudan, Kasala, Kadaref, Demazin, and Kosti.
The RSF claimed to occupy sites in Omdurman and Darfur, as well as Merowe Airport in the north.
But later accounts indicated that the army had regained control of the airport, with the military saying they were dealing with “small pockets of rebels“.
