KHARTOUM: US troops swooped in on helicopters to evacuate embassy staff from Sudan's battle-torn capital, President Joe Biden said Sunday (Apr 23), as other nations sought to help their citizens flee
France and Türkiye on Sunday also launched evacuation operations from the chaos-torn northeast African nation, where ongoing fighting has entered its second week.
France's foreign ministry said Sunday a"rapid evacuation operation" had begun, and that European citizens and those from"allied partner countries" would also be assisted, without giving further details. US Under Secretary of State John Bass said that the RSF"cooperated to the extent that they did not fire on our service members", warning any wider effort to evacuate thousands of other American citizens was unlikely in the coming days.
But the scramble by foreigners to escape has sparked worry among Sudanese about what will happen when diplomats who could act as potential mediators have gone.
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