government would "continue to coordinate with allies and partners who are conducting their own operations and to leverage those efforts to include Americans."Īt least two U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Monday that the U.S. European and African nations have spent the week evacuating civilians, including organizing airlifts out of the country, amid the calmer circumstances under the ceasefires. troops to Port Sudan, on the country's Red Sea coast, to coordinate departures. The plans under consideration include sending a contingent of U.S. A red marker shows the location of Port Sudan, about 500 miles northeast of Khartoum on Sudan's Red Sea coast. nationals are in Sudan, but The Associated Press said around 16,000 were registered with the American embassy as being in the country.
officials told CBS News on Monday that the government was considering multiple options to get American nationals out of Sudan. would be "temporarily suspending operations" at its embassy. Embassy in Khartoum, the White House said, adding that the U.S. diplomatic personnel from Sudan, including the American ambassador, from the U.S. military successfully evacuated just under 90 U.S. Smoke rises during clashes between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in Khartoum, Sudan, April 19, 2023. Heavy fighting broke out across the country on April 8, with Sudan's capital city of Khartoum and neighboring Obdurman being turned into battlefields. There was disagreement over which general would be subordinate to the other, and how quickly the RSF would be incorporated into the Sudanese military. The current fighting broke out between the army and the RSF as a result of negotiations breaking down over integrating the two forces ahead of the intended restoration of civilian rule. In 2021, al-Burhan, who had become chief of the power-sharing council, dissolved it, declaring he would instead hold elections in 2023.
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