Saturday, April 22, 2023

White House Says There Are No Evacuation Plans For All Americans In Sudan

 

 ABC News: White House warns American citizens not to count on evacuation from Sudan  

An estimated 16,000 US nationals are still in the war-torn country.  

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. 

While the administration says it is working towards evacuating American embassy staff still stranded in the country, it makes no promises about other Americans who could get let behind.

"It is not our standard procedure to evacuate American citizens living abroad," White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said on Friday.  

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Update #1: White House: No evacuation plans for all Americans in Sudan (AP)  

Update #2: U.S. Says It’s Unsafe to Evacuate Citizens from Sudan (DNYUZ/NYTimes)  

WNU Editor: The Sudanese Army says it will assist in these evacuations .... Sudan fighting: Army says foreign nationals to be evacuated (BBC).

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

So relevant today still:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4bBftiRo2Q

And respect to Ms. Huffington, great performance - Kissinger did well too, especially at the beginning.. but - here we are .. decades later and the call gets only louder.

Jac said...

Afghanistan again.