President Joe Biden said on Sunday that American embassy personnel had been evacuated from Khartoum as conflict between the Sudanese army and a paramilitary group began its second week after a brief respite.
“Today, on my orders, the United States military conducted an operation to extract U.S. Government personnel from Khartoum,” Biden said in a statement released late Saturday night, Washington time.
Thousands of people have been injured and hundreds of people have died as a result of the conflict in Sudan.
The operation, which he credited to the “unparalleled skill of our service members who successfully brought them to safety,” also involved Djibouti, Ethiopia, and Saudi Arabia.
Hours earlier, the Rapid Support Forces tweeted that it had “coordinated with the U.S Forces Mission consisting of 6 aircraft, for evacuating diplomats and their families.” The Rapid Support Forces are a heavily armed paramilitary force that is currently opposing the authority of the regular army in the capital and elsewhere.
Even though Sudan’s main airport is still shut down, foreign nations have declared they are ready for the eventual evacuation of thousands more of their citizens.
In the first announced civilian evacuation, more than 150 people from various countries had already made it to safety in Saudi Arabia a day earlier.
Fighting in Khartoum resumed after a brief truce on Friday, the first day of Eid al-Fitr, when the kingdom’s naval troops ferried the civilians, including diplomats and foreign officials, across the Red Sea from Port Sudan to Jeddah.
When the Muslim holy month of Ramadan comes to an end, the Sudanese often celebrate Eid with great fervour.
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