More than 1,000 US citizens have been evacuated from Sudan since the start of the armed conflict between the country’s Army and the Rapid Support Forces (FAR) paramilitary group, the State Department reported Monday.
Vedant Patel, deputy spokesman for the State Department, explained at a press conference that approximately 5,000 Americans have contacted consular services since the armed conflict broke out.
Three convoys from the United States transferred approximately 700 people, including Americans and other nationalities, to Port Sudan, a city on the Red Sea, where commercial ships leave for the Saudi Arabian city of Jeddah, the EFE news agency reported.
“We reiterate our call on the Sudanese Armed Forces and Rapid Support Forces to end fighting that is endangering the civilian population, and again warn American citizens not to travel to Sudan,” Patel said, adding that more than 200 officials are working on the evacuation of Sudan.
Despite the fact that a new 72-hour truce was agreed between both sides after the attacks that began on April 15, this Monday there were bombings in Khartoum.
Likewise, some 1,700 Turks were evacuated from the African country, in addition to another 1,000 citizens of the European Union.
The fighting, which has been going on for more than two weeks, arose after weeks of tension over the reform of the security forces in negotiations to form a new transitional government.
The forces currently facing each other were the protagonists of the coup in October 2021, which took place together to overthrow the transitional government in Sudan.