The White House says it won't evacuate Americans from Sudan as the country is embroiled in conflict.
In this screen grab from a video, smoke rises over Khartoum, Sudan, on April 21, 2023.As the violent struggle for power over Sudan reaches the one-week mark, the Biden administration is sticking firmly to its warning for private citizens: don't expect to be rescued.
Principal Deputy State Department spokesperson Vedant Patel said that officials had been in touch with several hundred of the estimated 16,000 U.S. citizens in Sudan concerning "security measures and other precautions they can take on their own." But while mass evacuations of private citizens may not be standard practice for the American government, they're not unheard of.
A more direct comparison to the situation in Sudan might be the mass evacuation of nearly 15,000 U.S. citizens from Lebanon in 2006 when an ongoing conflict between Israel and the militant group Hezbollah unexpectedly and rapidly intensified. The unrest in Sudan also extends to its airspace. Khartoum's primary airport is closed and badly damaged, and airlines have suspended travel after a jet came under fire.
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