{"id":268008,"date":"2023-04-23T07:13:59","date_gmt":"2023-04-23T07:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=268008"},"modified":"2023-04-24T06:32:26","modified_gmt":"2023-04-24T06:32:26","slug":"us-and-france-evacuate-diplomats-from-sudan-as-fierce-fighting-rages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=268008","title":{"rendered":"US and France evacuate diplomats from Sudan as fierce fighting rages"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Sky News \u2013 April 23, 2023<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>US troops have carried out an evacuation of American embassy staff from Sudan&#8217;s capital as fighting between the Sudanese army and a rival paramilitary group continues for a ninth day.<\/p>\n<p>About 70 American nationals have been successfully flown from a landing zone at the US Embassy in Khartoum to an undisclosed location in Ethiopia, an unnamed US official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity due to the sensitive nature of the mission.<\/p>\n<p>It is understood <a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/sudan-uk-to-begin-evacuating-diplomats-from-khartoum-as-soon-as-possible-12863949\"><strong>the UK is planning to evacuate British diplomats as soon as possible<\/strong><\/a>, while France is currently evacuating its diplomats and nationals, according to its foreign ministry.<\/p>\n<p>UK troops and military aircraft have been moved to an overseas base to prepare for what would be a high-risk rescue mission into an active conflict zone &#8211; in case the order is given.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson said: &#8220;The UK government has been planning and working with a number of international partners to support diplomatic staff and British nationals in Khartoum.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is not for us to comment on international partners&#8217; military activity in Sudan, but we are fully aware of each other&#8217;s plan and integrated with those operations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Biden&#8217;s order amid &#8216;tragic violence&#8217;<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>President Joe Biden ordered the evacuation of US embassy staff after receiving a recommendation on Saturday from his national security team with no end in sight to the fighting.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Mr Biden said: &#8220;Today, on my orders, the United States military conducted an operation to extract US government personnel from Khartoum.<\/p>\n<p data-role=\"ad-label\"><span data-label-text=\"Advertisement\"><a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/us-and-france-evacuate-diplomats-from-sudan-as-fierce-fighting-rages-12863980\">Continues \u2026<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Western countries evacuate diplomatic staff from Khartoum as fighting between Sudanese Army and rival paramilitary group escalates<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-268008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Current_Affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=268008"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":268010,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268008\/revisions\/268010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=268008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=268008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=268008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}