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[[As more countries safely evacuate their diplomats from Sudan, U.S. citizens who are still stranded in the African nation are being asked to continue sheltering in place and monitor U.S. official communications. VOA’s Veronica Balderas Iglesias takes a look at the options being considered to provide support to those left behind amid ongoing fighting between Sudan’s armed forces and a paramilitary group.]]
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HEADLINE: Americans Left in Sudan Must Shelter in Place Until Further Notice
TEASER: US and other countries have been evacuating diplomats from the African nation
PUBLISHED AT: 04/23/2023 at 4:04 pm
BYLINE: Veronica Balderas Iglesias
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[[As more countries safely evacuate their diplomats from Sudan, U.S. citizens who are still stranded in the African nation are being asked to continue sheltering in place and monitor U.S. official communications. VOA’s Veronica Balderas Iglesias takes a look at the options being considered to provide support to those left behind amid ongoing fighting between Sudan’s armed forces and a paramilitary group.]]
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Hours after diplomats from the United States and other countries were safely evacuated, images of the Sudanese paramilitary Rapid Support Forces and their leader, Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, appeared to show them defiant near the presidential palace complex. VOA can’t independently verify the footage, but reports of heavy infighting between the RSF...
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and the Sudanese armed forces continue to emerge.
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British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced Sunday in a tweet that Britain’s diplomatic staff has left the country.
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The U.S. is currently assessing how to support thousands of American citizens left behind, retired Colonel Steve Ganyard told ABC.
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“The Pentagon overnight said they could maybe think about setting up a safe corridor between Khartoum and Port Sudan and that presumably using drones would allow the U.S. Navy to take people out by sea.”
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The majority of U.S. civilians still in Sudan are Sudanese Americans working on aid missions, said Democratic Senator Mark Warner on ABC’s “This Week.”
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“There is actually a U.N. effort to get people from Khartoum out over the land corridor. I know we’re working with a lot of international partners. In this case, partners from the Middle East, even I believe working with China and Europeans to say those aid workers, we need to find a safe way to get them out.”
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For the moment, they’ll need to keep sheltering in place, Warner added.
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The world can’t forget the urgent need to broker a cease-fire for the sake of the Sudanese people, analyst Rebecca Hamilton told VOA via Skype.
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“What Sudan really needs, what the Sudanese people have been telling us for a long time, is a truly inclusive peace process that is going to be hard and messy and take a long time, but it’s worth the fight to get to a sustainable democracy.”
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At the Vatican on Sunday, Pope Francis asked for prayers for the Sudanese people.
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“I am renewing my appeal that violence cease as soon as possible and that the path of dialogue resumes.”
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The World Food Program has said in recent days that an “impressive” number of children are among the refugees fleeing the conflict and that their immediate necessity is drinking water.
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