Diplomats Flee Sudan Fighting; Citizens Struggle To Escape

April 24, 2023 4:19 am

KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — Foreign governments have been evacuating diplomats, staff and others trapped in Sudan as rival generals battled for a ninth day with no sign of a truce that had been declared for a major Muslim holiday. World powers like the United States, Britain, France and Italy airlifted their diplomats from the capital of Khartoum while many Sudanese desperately sought to flee the chaos, many risking dangerous roads for the northern border into Egypt. Fierce fighting raged in Omdurman, across the Nile from Khartoum, on Sunday. More than 420 people, including 264 civilians, have been killed and more than 3,700 wounded in the fighting between the Sudanese armed forces and the paramilitary group known as the Rapid Support Forces.