U.S. Military Evacuates Embassy Personnel in Embattled Sudan

NYT WORLD: U.S. Military Evacuates Embassy Personnel in Embattled Sudan
By Charlie Savage, Michael D. Shear, Elian Peltier and Declan Walsh
Section: World
Source: New York Times
Published Date: April 22, 2023 at 03:00AM

President Biden announced that diplomatic personnel, who had been stuck in the midst of a brutal war for more than a week, were evacuated from the capital, Khartoum.

The United States military airlifted embassy officials out of Khartoum, the capital of Sudan, amid continuing violence as rival military leaders battled for control of Africa’s third-largest country, President Biden said late on Saturday.
“Today, on my orders, the United States military conducted an operation to extract U.S. government personnel from Khartoum,” Mr. Biden said in a statement released by the White House.
A U.S. official familiar with the matter said the military airlifted about 70 U.S. embassy employees using helicopters and V-22 Ospreys — a plane that can take off and land vertically — from a site near the embassy after sundown. The Navy’s SEAL Team 6 special force was involved, the official said.
The move came on the eighth day of brutal fighting in the capital and other parts of the country between the army and a paramilitary group called the Rapid Support Forces, whose leaders are vying for supremacy in Sudan.

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