In an alert, the State Dept. said that “due to the uncertain security situation in Khartoum...it is not [yet] safe to undertake a U.S. government-coordinated evacuation of private U.S. citizens.” Why the U.S. evacuation from Sudan left Americans behind:
embassy staff in a helicopter mission by elite SEAL commandos over the weekend, while warning thousands of private American citizens in Sudan there would be no similar evacuation for them.
Each side has tens of thousands of troops in and around Khartoum and the city of Omdurman on the opposite bank of the Nile River. On Wednesday, the second day of the latest fragile ceasefire, sporadic fighting continued.As security conditions worsened late last week, including damage to the civilian airport and an attack on a U.S.
In a security alert Tuesday, the State Department reiterated that “due to the uncertain security situation in Khartoum and closure of the airport, it is not currently safe to undertake a U.S. government-coordinated evacuation of private U.S. citizens.” “We are working to establish a process that would enable people to move overland to a place where they can more easily exit the country, in all likelihood Port Sudan,” Blinken told reporters in Washington. “That’s under very active development.”
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