ADVERTISING“Fewer than 5,000 individuals have chosen to communicate with us,” Patel said during a Friday briefing. People have been evacuated by airlifts from Wadi Saeedna airfield in Khartoum and 15-hour-long overland convoys from Khartoum to Port Sudan for transfer to a ferry to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. In addition, several hundred U.S. citizens have already left Sudan either by land, sea or aircraft, Patel added. The U.S., which has for years advised citizens to avoid Sudan, has rebuffed calls for a broader government-organized evacuation there. The Sudanese Armed Forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces are battling for control amid intermittent cease-fire violations.
