A bus convoy of about 300 Americans left Sudan’s war-torn capital on Friday evening, beginning an 850km journey to the Red Sea in what is the first organized US effort to evacuate its citizens from the country. The New York Times writes it. The convoy, which has been following an evacuation route used by the UN and several other nations since Sunday, was followed by armed US drones circling in search of threats. Sudan is home to some 16,000 US citizens, many of whom are dual nationals.
Meanwhile, a growing number of people say they are stranded in Sudan because Western embassy employees fled the conflict-ridden country without returning the passports that were handed over for visa applications. Diplomats from at least three Western representations have not been able to return travel documents to Sudanese citizens, according to testimonies gathered by CNN. Most Western embassies in Sudan were evacuated a week after the fighting started, leaving many Sudanese visa applicants without travel documents and in legal limbo.
