The United States and other countries are evacuating their citizens from Sudan in the middle of the armed conflict

USA, France, Germanyand the United Kingdom are some of the countries that began evacuating their citizens or their diplomatic personnel this Sunday Sudanwhere the fighting between the army and paramilitaries entered its second week.

Violence in this Northeast African country of some 45 million inhabitants, broke out on April 15 under the general’s army Abdul Fatah al Burhanthe de facto ruler of Sudan since the 2021 coup, and his rival, General Mohamed Hamdane Dagloleader of the Rapid Support Forces (FAR).

The skirmishes mainly take place in Khartoumthe capital, and in the Darfur regionin the west of the country.

The prisoners have been released from at least one prison, the lawyers said, while other sources, without independent verification, report attacks on two other prisons, mainly Kober, where all political prisoners are housed, including deposed dictator Omar al-Bashir.

More than 420 people have been killed and 3,700 injured so faraccording to the World Health Organization (WHO).

He Pope Francisco He asked both sides in the dispute to resume dialogue given the “serious” situation in the country. Two previously agreed ceasefires in the week failed to stop the clashes.

Violence has displaced tens of thousands of people to other parts of Sudan and to neighboring Chad and Egypt.

So were the evacuations

France launched a “rapid evacuation operation,” the State Department announced on Sunday. The operation involves citizens of Europe and allied countries and a first flight carried a hundred people.

Also Italy indicated it was trying to trap its citizens in the country, as was Turkey, which was forced to halt its operation by an explosion near the meeting place in the Kafuri district of northern Khartoum.

British Prime Minister, Rishi Sunakreported that his country’s military proceeded with a “complex and rapid evacuation” of British diplomats and their families.

In a post on Twitter, Sunak stressed that the evacuation took place in a “context of escalating violence and threats against embassy staff”.

USA He also evacuated his government personnel from Khartoum by helicopter, the president said hours earlier. Joe Biden it’s a statement. Washington also temporarily suspended its embassy’s activities.

The fierce fighting between the forces of the two generals in power continues.

The shooting intensifies in and around the capital. Fighters fly over the area as paramilitary armored vehicles approach.

The skirmishes leave their mark on the street. Some streetlights lay on the ground on Sunday, while some burnt-out shops continued to put out columns of smoke.

The World Food Program warned against this Millions more could starve from violencein Africa’s third largest country, where a third of the population is in need of humanitarian aid.