redstate.com By Bob Hoge
The State Department held a press briefing Saturday night to describe the chaos in Sudan and our successful efforts to evacuate U.S. embassy personnel from the violence-stricken African country. Under Secretary for Management Ambassador John Bass reported that all operations at the embassy in the country’s capital, Khartoum, have been halted for the time being:
As of today, April 22nd, as a result of the fighting between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces, the United States has temporarily suspended operations – and I want to stress “temporarily” – suspended operations at our embassy in Khartoum.
The widespread fighting, as you know, has caused significant civilian deaths and injuries. There’s been substantial damage to essential infrastructure, including, importantly, the civilian airport in the heart of the city.
And so as a result of the intensity of the conflict and the challenges that our diplomatic personnel were experiencing in conducting basic operations and the uncertainty about their – the availability of key supplies like fuel and food going forward, we reluctantly decided it was time to suspend operations; and with tremendous support from our professional military colleagues at DOD, we evacuated all of the U.S. personnel and dependents assigned to Embassy Khartoum there under the responsibility of the Secretary of State.
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