Washington: Hundreds of Americans escorted by military drones arrived at the port of the East African country on Saturday as part of a campaign launched by the US to evacuate its civilians amid ongoing violence in Sudan. US officials said that through the land route The evacuation was monitored by the military using an American unmanned aerial vehicle, and 200 to 300 Americans were taken in a bus convoy to the relatively safe port of Port Sudan.
The United States initially refused to launch any operation to evacuate Americans trapped in Sudan, citing it as too dangerous, leading American families living there to denounce their country’s administration for US special operations forces. has evacuated its embassy in Sudan and other US government employees from the violence-torn country by air on April 22, but there has been no operation for the thousands of US citizens living there, many of whom hold dual citizenship, While dozens of other countries are conducting evacuation operations to get their citizens out of Sudan by air, land or water.
US State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said that the convoy brought US citizens, US-appointed local people and citizens of allied countries to the port. “We again caution US citizens not to travel to Sudan,” he said. Officials said the US citizens would arrive at the dock in Jeddah where US consular officials would be waiting for them, but at ‘Port Sudan’ ‘ has no American employees.
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