Biden Says US Embassy Evacuation In Sudan Has Been Completed

April 23, 2023 7:33 am

 

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden said late Saturday that the U.S. military evacuation of U.S. embassy personnel in Sudan has been completed as he called for end to the “unconscionable” violence. Biden thanked the U.S. troops who carried out the mission to extract American staffers in Sudan, as Washington shuttered the U.S. mission in Khartoum indefinitely. The staffers were airlifted to an undisclosed location in Ethiopia, according to two U.S. officials familiar with the mission. U.S. troops carried out the operation as fighting between two armed Sudanese rivals —which has left more than 400 dead, put the nation at risk of collapse and could have consequences far beyond its borders—moved into a second week.