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Reuters
Reuters
Politics
By Daphne Psaledakis and Phil Stewart

US evacuated under 100 people from embassy in Sudan amid fighting

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken monitors the operation to evacuate U.S. personnel from its embassy in Khartoum, Sudan while at the State Department in Washington, U.S. April 22, 2023. U.S. Department of State/Handout via REUTERS

All U.S. government personnel were evacuated from Washington's embassy in Khartoum, as well as a small number of diplomatic personnel from other countries, U.S. officials said on Saturday, as fighting rocks Sudan.

The operation evacuated fewer than 100 people, the officials told reporters.

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