This has forced evacuations to be undertaken by road via Port Sudan on the Red Sea, which lies about 650 kilometres (400 mi) northeast of Khartoum.

Some major transit hubs used during the evacuation include the port of Jeddah in Saudi Arabia and Djibouti, which hosts military bases of the United States, China, Japan, France, and other European countries.

Der Spiegel reported that the German Air Force dispatched three A400M transport planes that stopped over in Greece to refuel and were later expected to fly to Khartoum.

[10][11] The SAF agreed to secure the evacuation of UK, US, French and Chinese diplomats and nationals from Sudan by air.

[18] Later in the day, the French Foreign Ministry announced that it had managed to evacuate around 100 people of multiple nationalities from Sudan by air after what it called a "complicated" rescue operation.

[20] Planes from Italy, Jordan, and Spain also airlifted evacuees of various nationalities to Djibouti or directly to their home countries.

[25] The Swedish Riksdag, approved a proposal to allow the government to provide a unit of up to 400 soldiers to evacuate its citizens in Sudan.

[26] An Emergency Consular Assistance Team departed from Ireland for Sudan on a mission to evacuate 150 Irish people and their families from the conflict.

The team consisted of officials from the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs and members of the Defence Forces, including Army Ranger Wing personnel.

[36] The Dutch ministry of defence announced that two separate flights of Royal Netherlands Air Force C-130H transport planes departed from Sudan bringing Dutch nationals to Aqaba, Jordan where the Rapid Consular Support Team of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and a medical team were waiting.

[37][38] UK Armed Forces Minister James Heappey said that a military reconnaissance team arrived in eastern Sudan to assess evacuation options.

[42] Indonesian Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that at 01:00 local time, 538 evacuees arrived safely at Port Sudan from Khartoum after ~15 hours by road and passing through 15 security checkpoints, marking the first evacuation phase, and they would continue their journey to Jeddah by sea.

[43] The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Worship of Argentina announced that two Argentine citizens had been evacuated from Sudan with the help of the Spanish embassy in Khartoum.

[51] Nigeria began evacuating its nationals from Sudan, using about 40 buses to transport 3,500 evacuees to Aswan, in Egypt.

[62] Tanzania evacuated its 206 citizens and nationals from eight countries on five buses from Khartoum to the Ethiopian border town of Metemma and then to Gondar from where they were airlifted to Addis Ababa.

[63][64] A Turkish evacuation plane was fired upon at Wadi Seidna Air Base and required repair after it sustained damage to its fuel system.

[74] Russia said it had evacuated more than 200 of its diplomats and other Russian nationals as well as citizens from former Soviet republics, with television footage showing two Defence Ministry transport aircraft landing outside Moscow.

In two flights, Yemeni authorities evacuated 197 citizens to the port city of Aden and the other 195 people to the Houthi-controlled capital of Sanaa.

According to one source, the British had to pay the SAF to allow them access, which resulted in at least half a day's delay for German rescuers.