Foreign Nationals to be Evacuated from Sudan Amid Ongoing Violence

Sudan's army has announced that countries including the United States, Britain, France, and China would evacuate their diplomatic staff "within the coming hours" from the country due to fighting between rival forces. The Sudanese Armed Forces said that Army chief Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan had agreed to facilitate and secure evacuations of foreign nationals out of the capital, Khartoum, after requests from various countries. The United States, South Korea, Japan, and the Netherlands were among countries who sent planes and troops to Sudan's neighbors in recent days to prepare to extricate diplomatic personnel or other citizens.