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.
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White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre speaks during the daily press briefing in the James S. Brady Briefing Room at the White House in Washington, D.C., on April 21, 2023.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.
During the turbulent U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan in August of 2021, the Biden administration airlifted tens of thousands of embassy personnel, private American citizens, Special Immigrant Visa holders and applicants, as well as others. Still, numerous Americans and Afghan allies were left behind at the end of August 2021 -- and Jean-Pierre argued that that withdrawal, a result of the Taliban taking over the country, was unique.
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