When Bryan Stern launched Project DYNAMO, a humanitarian effort to rescue vulnerable people during the 2021 turmoil in Afghanistan, he didn’t expect he’d still be extracting people during a conflict two years later, only this time in Sudan.
As the East African nation falls into civil warfare, Stern’s representatives confirmed that his nonprofit,, rescued around 90 “Americans, [U.S.] allies and their families” over the weekend. The organization successfully landed a charter aircraft in Cairo with evacuees from Sudan, they said, arriving at Cairo International Airport at 6 a.m. on Monday.
“There was no way for me to fly in so I [could] live or die with my family,” Mahgoub said. “There [was] no way for me to get them out of there. I saw these things going on, and I saw other nations taking care of their citizens.” that was extended for an extra 72 hours through Sunday, although the Associated Press reported that “gunfire and heavy artillery fire” persisted over the weekend.
That’s when private organizations like Project Dynamo step in. The group is funded by donations and is trying to execute exfiltration missions for the hundreds of people in Sudan who it says have reached out to it.between the Sudanese Armed Forces, led by Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, and the Rapid Support Forces, led by Gen. Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo. The U.S. sent special operations troops into Khartoum on April 22 to airlift embassy staffers and government personnel.
U.S. soldiers escort American nationals to a U.S. Navy ship in Port Sudan, Sunday, April 30, 2023. Sudan's army and its rival paramilitary say they will extend a humanitarian cease-fire another 72 hours as of midnight. The decision follows international pressure to allow the safe passage of civilians and aid but also comes after days of continued fighting despite the earlier truce.
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