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Sudanese military says evacuations of diplomats expected to begin


Thick smoke rises above buildings in the vicinity of Khartoum airport on April 15, 2023, amid clashes in the Sudanese capital.

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Sudan’s military said on Saturday it was coordinating efforts to evacuate diplomats from the United States, Britain, China and France by military aircraft, as fighting continued in the capital. including at the country’s main airport.

The army said army commander General Abdel Fattah Burhan spoke with the leaders of various countries requesting the safe evacuation of their citizens and diplomats from Sudan, where the conflict occurred. bloodshed in the past week. Countries have struggled to repatriate their citizens amid deadly clashes that have killed more than 400 people so far. With Sudan’s main international airport closed, foreign nations have ordered their citizens to shelter in place only until they can figure out an evacuation plan.

Burhan said that diplomats from Saudi Arabia were evacuated from Port Sudan and returned by helicopter to the kingdom. He said that Jordan’s diplomats would soon be evacuated in a similar way.

Earlier this week, the Pentagon said it was moving more troops and equipment to a Navy base in the tiny Gulf of Aden nation of Djibouti in preparation for the evacuation of US Embassy staff from Sudan.

Fighting between the Sudanese military and a powerful paramilitary group called the Rapid Support Forces has raged around the airport, a vast complex near the center of the capital, complicating evacuation plans .

On Friday, the United States said it had no coordinated government evacuation plan for an estimated 16,000 American citizens stranded in Sudan and continued to urge Americans in Sudan to shelter in place.

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