Canada has conducted its first two evacuation flights to get Canadians and other foreign nationals out of Sudan. And the federal government is promising more airlifts — depending on conditions on the ground — as its critics accuse it of moving too slowly.
At an event in Nova Scotia on Thursday, Defence Minister Anita Anand announced the first flight but offered few details. Senior officials at the Department of National Defence and Global Affairs Canada, speaking at a technical briefing later in the day in Ottawa, confirmed the second flight had left Khartoum.
The first evacuation flight had 45 people aboard; the second took 73 out of the war-torn country. Officials could not
