“We didn’t take any small arms fire along the way and were able to get in and out without any problems,” said Lt. Gen. Douglas Sims, director of operations at the Army Joint Staff.
Chris Meier, an assistant secretary of defense, said the US military could use drones or satellite imagery to detect threats to Americans traveling on routes out of Sudan, or the position of naval assets at a Sudanese port. Can help visiting Americans.
Under Secretary of State for Management John Bass said that some Americans and other citizens had successfully made the journey from Khartoum to Port Sudan on the Red Sea, which he said was a challenging journey given the lack of fuel, food and supposedly available water. It seems
Saudi Arabia has already evacuated Gulf citizens from Port Sudan on the Red Sea, 650 km (400 mi) from Khartoum. Jordan will use this route for its citizens.
Egypt, which has more than 10,000 citizens in Sudan, urged its citizens outside Khartoum to go to its consulate in Port Sudan and a consular office in Wadi Halfa on the Egyptian border to prepare for evacuation . This encouraged the people of Khartoum to seek shelter in place and wait for the situation to improve.
Beyond Khartoum, reports of the worst violence came from Darfur, a western region bordering Chad that has been wracked by a conflict since 2003 that has killed 300,000 people and displaced 2.7 million.