by ZeroHedge News Staff at ZeroHedge
Following the weekend announcement by the State Department that all US personnel and their dependents had been safely evacuated from the US Embassy In Khartoum, which included about 70 US staff members, the White House has followed up by saying the spiraling security situation is “not conductive” for a large-scale military evacuation of all US citizens from the country.
White House national security spokesman John Kirby on Monday said that the worsening civil conflict means remaining Americans are on their own in terms of an evacuation, but that the State Dept. will continuing assisting them “in planning for their own safety.”
“Well, we have military forces still prepositioned nearby in the region … if they’re needed, but quite frankly, the situation is not conducive and not safe to try to conduct some kind of a larger military evacuation of American citizens. He continued, “Actually, the violence is increasing is more dangerous today than it was just yesterday, the day before,” Kirby said in an interview on “CNN This Morning.”
“And so the best advice we can give to those Americans who did not abide by our warnings to leave Sudan and not to travel to Sudan is to stay sheltered in place, stay safe and secure and off the streets of Khartoum,” Kirby said.
He stressed the US Embassy…
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