![]() ![]() At least 3,000 more from various countries have been evacuated by sea from Port Sudan to Jeddah in Saudi Arabia, Saudi authorities said. ![]() Germany and France have evacuated another 1,700 people by air. It renewed questions about why the United States had taken so long to organize a civilian evacuation from Sudan, home to an estimated 16,000 American citizens, many of them dual nationals, when Western and Persian Gulf allies have moved faster and evacuated far more people.īritain has evacuated 1,573 people since Tuesday from an airfield north of Khartoum, most of them British nationals. The United Nations and many nations have also evacuated their citizens overland, after receiving security assurances from the warring sides. ![]() The convoy was being tracked by armed American drones that hovered high overhead, watching for threats. NAIROBI, Kenya - A convoy of buses carrying about 300 Americans left the war-torn capital of Sudan on Friday, starting a 525-mile journey to the Red Sea that was the United States’ first organized effort to evacuate its private citizens from the country. ![]()
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