KHARTOUM: The US military has evacuated American embassy staff from Khartoum, President Joe Biden said on Sunday (Apr 23), as fighting between the Sudanese army and a paramilitary group entered a second week following a brief lull. The fighting in Sudan has left hundreds dead and thousands wounded, while s
KHARTOUM: The US military has evacuated American embassy staff from Khartoum, President Joe Biden said on Sunday , as fighting between the Sudanese army and a paramilitary group entered a second week following a brief lull.
The Rapid Support Forces , the heavily armed paramilitary group currently challenging the authority of the regular army in the capital and elsewhere, tweeted hours earlier that it had"coordinated with the US Forces Mission consisting of 6 aircraft, for evacuating diplomats and their families on Sunday morning".
As the kingdom's naval forces transported the civilians, including diplomats and international officials, across the Red Sea from Port Sudan to Jeddah, fighting resumed in Khartoum after a temporary truce saw gunfire momentarily die down on Friday, the first day of Eid al-Fitr. Urban warfare began on Apr 15 between forces loyal to Burhan and those of his deputy-turned-rival Mohamed Hamdan Daglo.
The German ministers of defence and foreign affairs held a crisis meeting on Saturday on a possible evacuation, after three military transport planes had to turn back on Wednesday, according to German weekly Der Spiegel.
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