A bus convoy of about 300 Americans left Sudan's war-torn capital on Friday evening, beginning an 850km journey to the Red Sea in what is the first organized US effort to evacuate its citizens from the country.
The New York Times writes it.
The convoy, which has been following an evacuation route used by the UN and many other nations since Sunday, was followed by armed US drones circling in search of threats.
Sudan is home to some 16,000 US citizens, many of whom are dual nationals.
After yesterday evening rival factions of the Sudanese army agreed to renew a three-day truce shortly before its expiry, this morning an announcement from the General Command of the Sudanese Armed Forces and media reports confirm that the fifth ceasefire between the parties who have been fighting since 15 April mainly in Khartoum for control of Sudan.
"This morning the rebels launched a failed attack on our forces in the Jabal Awliya area," the Army Spokesperson's Office wrote on Facebook, implicitly referring to a village in north-central Sudan, about 40 km south of the capital Khartoum.
The soldiers "managed to repel the attack, inflicting heavy casualties" on the paramilitaries and "