Sudan's sudden slide into conflict between the army and Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group has stranded thousands of foreigners, including diplomats and aid workers.

The eruption of fighting eight days ago has triggered a humanitarian crisis, killed 400 people and trapped many thousands of civilians in their homes.

As people attempted to flee the chaos and foreign countries tried to pull out their nationals, gunfire rang out across the capital and dark smoke hung overhead, a Reuters reporter said.

This is the status of some of the evacuations taking place:

The United States

US special forces evacuated all US government personnel and their dependents, along with a few diplomats from other countries, from the embassy on Saturday using helicopters that flew from a base in Djibouti and refuelled in Ethiopia. They were not fired on during the evacuation.

The embassy has suspended operations due to security risks but local staff remain to support it.

Washington does not plan to coordinate an evacuation of other US citizens in Sudan but is looking at options to help them leave.

بريطانيا

UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said on Sunday that British armed forces had staged a "complex and rapid evacuation" of all diplomatic staff and their families from Sudan.

He said the government was pursuing every avenue to end the bloodshed and ensure the safety of British nationals still in the country.

فرنسا

France's Foreign Ministry said on Sunday it was evacuating its diplomats and citizens.

However, the warring army and RSF each accused the other of attacking a French convoy. The army said the RSF had fired on the convoy, wounding a French national.

The RSF said it had been attacked by aircraft during the evacuation, leading to a French national being wounded, and it had returned the convoy to its starting point.

France's Foreign Ministry has not commented on the reported attack or injury.

روسيا

Moscow's ambassador in Khartoum told Russian state media that 140 out of roughly 300 Russians in Sudan had said they wanted to leave.

Evacuation plans were made but were still impossible to implement because they involved crossing front lines, the ambassador said. He added there were about 15 people, including a woman and child, stuck in a Russian Orthodox church close to heavy fighting in Khartoum.

مصر

Egypt has urged its citizens outside Khartoum to head to the consulates in Port Sudan and Wadi Halfa, in the north, to prepare for evacuation and urged its nationals in Khartoum to shelter at home until the situation improved.

It said there needed to be a "meticulous, safe and organised" evacuation process for its 10,000 nationals in neighbouring Sudan to reach home.

It said one of its diplomats had been wounded by gunfire, without giving details.

Saudi Arabia and Kuwait

Saudi Arabia on Saturday pulled 91 Saudis and about 66 people from other countries out from Port Sudan by naval ship to Jeddah, across the Red Sea.

Kuwait said all citizens wishing to return home had arrived in Jeddah.