Global News published this video item, entitled “Sudan crisis: Canada pausing rescue flights after mechanical trouble, reports of shooting” – below is their description.
The Canadian government’s plan to evacuate Canadians from the deadly conflict in Sudan via air were put on hold Friday after one plane had mechanical problems and militants shot at a Turkish evacuation flight, Canada’s Defence Minister Anita Anand said Friday.
Speaking to reporters in Dartmouth, N.S., Anand said two more government flights were supposed to take off Friday morning, but one of the Canadian military planes being used — a C-130 Hercules — had a “mechanical issue” that has since been resolved.
Evacuations are still on hold, she said.
“The situation is dangerous. It is volatile, it is intense, and we need to do whatever we can to ensure the safety and security of Canadians at the airport and of course as they board flights and take off from the area,” Anand said.
Canada is a country in the northern part of North America. It extends from the Atlantic to the Pacific and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering 9.98 million square kilometres (3.85 million square miles), making it the world’s second-largest country by total area.
Its southern and western border with the United States, stretching 8,891 kilometres (5,525 mi), is the world’s longest bi-national land border. Canada’s capital is Ottawa, and its three largest metropolitan areas are Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver.
Various Indigenous peoples inhabited what is now Canada for thousands of years before European colonization. The Canada Act 1982, which severed the vestiges of legal dependence on the British Parliament. Canada is a parliamentary democracy and a constitutional monarchy in the Westminster tradition, with a monarch and a prime minister who serves as the chair of the Cabinet and head of government.
As a highly developed country, Canada has the seventeenth-highest nominal per-capita income globally as well as the thirteenth-highest ranking in the Human Development Index. Its advanced economy is the tenth-largest in the world, relying chiefly upon its abundant natural resources and well-developed international trade networks.
The Sudan, officially the Republic of the Sudan, is a country in Northeast Africa. It is bordered by Egypt to the north, Libya to the northwest, Chad to the west, the Central African Republic to the southwest, South Sudan to the south, Ethiopia to the southeast, Eritrea to the east, and the Red Sea to the northeast.
Sudan’s history goes back to the Pharaonic period. Independence from the British was proclaimed on 1 January 1956.
Islam was Sudan’s state religion and Islamic laws applied from 1983 until 2020 when the country became a secular state. The economy has been described as lower-middle income and relies on oil production. Sudan is a member of the United Nations, the Arab League, African Union, COMESA, Non-Aligned Movement and the Organisation of Islamic Co-operation.
