After one of Canada’s planned evacuation flights out of Sudan ran into mechanical problems Friday, Defence Minister Anita Anand said the problem has been resolved and officials hope the airlift will resume “as soon as possible.”
The problem emerged just one day after Canada began its long-anticipated humanitarian mission in the east African country, now in the midst of a precarious ceasefire between two warring factions.
Canada has been staging its evacuation flights out of the nearby nation of Djibouti. Two aircraft are assigned to the mission.
Anand did not say where the C-130J encountered its mechanical issues, or what the nature of the problem was, or why the second aircraft
