The U.S. military successfully evacuated American diplomats and their families overnight, President Biden said. Some locally employed staffers will remain to take care of the U.S. facility until embassy operations resume.
eight days ago. The RSF is headed by Gen. Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo — universally referred to Hemedti — while Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan is the commander of the Sudanese armed forces and the country’s de facto head of state.
But the operation to rescue diplomats leaves behind tens of thousands of foreign nationals, including 16,000 American citizens, and millions of Sudanese with no hope of safety.in Africa’s third-largest nation have shut down, and aid agencies have been forced to suspend operations after staffers were killed and assaulted. Roads leading south out of the capital are bristling with militia fighters, said Adam Omer, a science teacher and pro-democracy activist who managed to make it to South Sudan.
“To the western negotiators: you put us in this mess & now you’re swooping in to take your kinfolk & leaving us behind to these two murdering psychopaths,” tweeted Dallia Mohamed Abdelmoniem, a Khartoum resident who fled after a mortar crashed into her house. “God have mercy on us cause no one else gives a damn and no one else will be merciful.”
A senior U.S. State Department official, John Bass, rejected claims by the RSF that the group had supported the embassy evacuation. “They cooperated to the extent that they did not fire on our service members,” he said.
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