• US special operations forces carried out a difficult and precarious evacuation of the US Embassy in Sudan on Sunday

  • Biden decided to evacuate the embassy on Friday as soon as it was safe and feasible

    • There has been fighting for the last nine days and there is no sign of stopping

    • Last week fighters attached a US embassy convoy and stormed home of the EU ambassador

• The helicopters were on the ground for less than an hour

  • 100 US troops were in three MH-47 helicopters and airlifted out about 70 remaining embassy employees from a landing zone at the embassy to an undisclosed location in Ethiopia

    • Ethiopia also provided overflight and refueling support according to the assistant sec of state for Africa Affairs

    • Biden said Djibouti and Saudi Arabia provided assistance as well

• No shots fired and no major causalities were reported

• US has closed it's diplomatic mission in Sudan

  • The final embassy employee has been removed

• There are thousands US private citizens still in Sudan

  • Many are dual nationals

  • The main international airport is closed and the roads out of the country are in control of armed fighters

  • Biden said he is receiving regular reports from his team on efforts to assist remaining Americans in Sudan " to the extent possible"

    • US officials said they could not evacuate them because the danger was too high

      • They are however providing guidance on escape routes and other logistical information

  • There are an estimated 16,000 private US citizens registered with the embassy as being in Sudan

    • Figure is very rough because a lot of Americans do no register with the embassy and don't tell them when they depart

    • Many news outlets are using this number to estimate the number of Americans in Sudan

• Many other countries have evacuated their diplomatic employees and some have been evacuating private citizens as well

  • Many other countries followed with evacuations hours after the US

  • The EU ambassador has stayed behind

  • At least 14 nations have evacuated or are evacuating at least embassy staff at this time

    • Some countries are also evacuating some private citizens as well

PC: AP