The US military is preparing for a possible evacuation of the US Embassy in Sudan. The military is moving assets to Navy Camp Lemonnier in Djibouti due to the current situation in Sudan, where two warring factions are currently fighting.
The military is moving assets to Navy Camp Lemonnier in Djibouti due to the current situation in Sudan, where two warring factions are currently fighting."The Department of Defense, through U.S. Africa Command, is monitoring the situation in Sudan and conducting prudent planning for various contingencies," Department of Defense spokesman Lt. Col. Phil Ventura said in a statement.
U.N. special representative Volker Perthes confirmed the deaths of “three colleagues from the World Food Program who have been killed while trying to serve the Sudanese people in north Darfur,” although he could not say which side was responsible. European Union Ambassador Aidan O’Hara, an Irish diplomat, also “was assaulted in his own residency,” EU high representative Josep Borrell announced on Monday.
The clashes are occurring between Sudanese Gen. Abdel Fattah Burhan’s military forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces led by Gen. Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, also known as Hemedti. Together, they combined forces in 2021 to overthrow a coalition government, but the two sides have soured amid disputes over the integration of Dagalo’s fighters into Burhan’s regular forces.
The recent round of fighting resulted in the deaths of at least 185 people and another 1,800 wounded, according to United Nations estimates released Sunday.
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