This content was published on April 22, 2023 – 14:08
Cairo, Apr 22 (EFE).- The United States Embassy in Khartoum reported today that due to the security situation in Khartoum and the closure of the international airport, it is currently not safe to carry out an evacuation, despite the fact that Sudanese said shortly before that the North American country would proceed with the repatriation “in a few hours”.
“Due to the uncertain security situation in Khartoum and the closure of the airport, it is currently unsafe to carry out a US government-coordinated evacuation of private US citizens,” the embassy said in a security alert posted on its official Twitter account. Twitter.
The embassy “continues to closely monitor the situation in and around Khartoum, where there are ongoing clashes, shootings and security force activity. There have also been reports of muggings, home invasions and looting. US citizens are strongly advised to Please stay home, shelter in place until further notice and avoid traveling to the US embassy.”
The legation “remains under a shelter-in-place order and cannot provide emergency consular services,” it noted.
Also, the embassy noted that “there is incomplete information about important convoys leaving Khartoum in the direction of Port Sudan. The embassy cannot help convoys. Traveling in any convoy is at your own risk.”
These statements come after the leader of the Army, Abdelfatah al Burhan, gave the green light to the evacuations by air of diplomatic missions and their citizens, starting with the United States, France, the United Kingdom and China, “in the next few hours “.
In the last two days, several countries such as the United States, Japan, Spain and South Korea have announced the deployment of planes to Djibouti, some 1,700 kilometers from the Sudanese capital, from where the evacuation will be coordinated.
Saudi Arabia today began the operation to repatriate its citizens and undisclosed countries after going overland to Port Sudan in eastern Sudan and taking a boat to the coastal city of Jeddah on the of the Red Sea.
At least 413 people have died and 3,551 have been injured in Sudan since the outbreak of the conflict, according to the latest count released yesterday by the World Health Organization (WHO).
The fighting that began on April 15 between the Sudanese Army and the FAR arose after weeks of tension over the reform of the security forces in the negotiations to form a new transitional government.
Both forces were the architects of the joint coup that overthrew the transitional government of Sudan in October 2021. EFE
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