The US military has drones and ships deployed near Sudan to help Americans looking to flee the country after US special operations forces evacuated embassy personnel from Khartoum.
Pentagon spokesman Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder said the Pentagon and US Africa Command (AFRICOM) were working with the State Department on the situation in Sudan, where forces loyal to rival generals have been fighting in the capital.
“Those efforts include providing intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance capabilities to observe potential land routes out of Sudan and detect threats and positioning naval assets off the coast of Sudan, should they be needed,” Ryder said.
He said the guided-missile destroyer USS Truxtun is currently operating near Port Sudan, and another ship, the USS Puller, an expeditionary mobile base vessel, is on the way.
Ryder said US drones are providing surveillance but wouldn’t provide further detail. “I’m not going to get into the specifics of the type of platform other then say we’re providing unmanned aerial vehicle overwatch,” he said.
About 100 US special operations soldiers using three MH-47 helicopters carried out the evacuation of the US embassy in Khartoum on Sunday. They flew about 70 embassy staff to an undisclosed location in Ethiopia. The State Department said the US wouldn’t attempt evacuating any of the thousands of US citizens who are in Sudan. But their presence could potentially be used as a pretext for further US military intervention in the country.
In a letter to Congress, President Biden said the evacuation operation involved deploying troops to Djibouti, Ethiopia, and Sudan. He said US military “personnel will remain deployed in Djibouti to protect United States personnel and others until the security situation no longer requires their presence, and additional forces are prepared to deploy to the region if required.”
Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Monday that the rival generals, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, Sudan’s army chief and de facto leader, and Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, the commander of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), have agreed to a 72-hour ceasefire that will start Tuesday. The warring sides had previously agreed to several failed ceasefires.
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Just one more country destroyed by the Bronze Age Death Cult running the US.
Very well said, very well said.
A melancholy necessity to protect it against the Chinese belt & road.
OH BOY! Another civil war to exploit for more war industry profits and keep those MIC donations coming into Wash.