![]() Without the evacuation flights near the capital that other countries have been offering their citizens, many U.S. officials exploited a relative lull in the fighting and, from afar, organized their own convoy for Americans, officials said. officials have tried to link up Americans with other nations’ evacuation efforts. Since the conflict between two rival generals broke out April 15, the United States has warned its citizens that they needed to find their own way out of the country, though U.S. ![]() A man walks by a house hit in recent fighting in Khartoum, Sudan, on April 25, 2023. More than a dozen other nations had already been carrying out evacuations for their citizens, using a mix of military planes, navy vessels, and on the ground personnel.Ī wide-ranging group of international mediators-including African and Arab nations, the United Nations and the United States-has only managed to achieve a series of fragile temporary cease-fires that failed to stop clashes but created enough of a lull for tens of thousands of Sudanese to flee to safer areas and for foreign nations to evacuate thousands of their citizens by land, air, and sea. citizens were left behind, many of them dual-nationals. special operations troops briefly flew to the capital, Khartoum, on April 22 to airlift out American staffers at the embassy and other American government personnel. The United States, which had none of its officials on the ground for the evacuation, has been criticized by families of trapped Americans in Sudan for initially ruling out any U.S.-run evacuation for Americans who wanted out, calling it too dangerous. WASHINGTON-Hundreds of Americans fleeing two weeks of deadly fighting in Sudan reached the east African nation’s port Saturday in the first U.S.-run evacuation, completing a dangerous land journey under escort of armed drones.Īmerican unmanned aircraft, which have been keeping an eye on overland evacuation routes for days, provided armed overwatch for a bus convoy carrying 200 to 300 Americans over 500 miles, or 800 kilometers, to Port Sudan, a place of relative safety, U.S.
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