MANILA, Philippines — Seventy-four Filipino evacuees from strife-torn Sudan made it back to the Philippines on Thursday, May 4, said the Department of Migrant Workers (DMW). The DMW said Saudia flight SV862, carrying 44 overseas Filipino workers (OFWs), seven students, 17 children, and six infants, left Riyadh and arrived in Manila at around 1:40 p.m. Overseas Workers Welfare Administration chief Arnell Ignacio joined the group whose repatriation was arranged amid raging clashes in Sudan, which erupted weeks ago due to a power struggle between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces.

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