USA Just Emptied Their Embassy in Sudan

 Nadene Goldfoot                                            

 refugees from fighting

By JACK JEFFERY and NOHA ELHENNAWYtoday

KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — As foreign governments airlifted hundreds of their diplomats and other citizens to safety, Sudanese desperately sought ways to escape the chaos Monday, fearing that the country’s two rival generals will escalate their all-out battle for power once evacuations are completed.  

For Sudan's more than 45 million people, the conflict between Lt. Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and Lt. Gen. Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo is set to deepen an already intense economic and humanitarian crisis.  A bitter rivalry between Sudan’s top two generals erupted into open warfare this weekend, further destabilizing a country that has been at the center of geopolitical power competition from the Middle East, the U.S. and Russia.   It will also further delay a promised transition to civilian rule.                                  

States of Sudan, more like our counties in Oregon, showing well-known Darfur on the SE and Kartoum in central East.  

Sudan is huge, about as big as Alaska.  Everyone wants a piece of it, and the USA is at the end of the line these days.  It is Egypt's neighbor to the south, shown as purple.  Thousands are trying to leave the country and are stuck.  

Sudan is the 8th largest Muslim populated country with a population in 2011 of 43,939,598. of which 70% were Muslims. Out of them about 104,500 belonged to their military power of active troops.  They are Sunnis.                        

It has a population of 45.7 million people as of 2022 and occupies 1,886,068 square kilometres (728,215 square miles), making it Africa's third-largest country by area, and the third-largest by area in the Arab League. It was the largest country by area in Africa and the Arab League until the secession of South Sudan in 2011, since which both titles have been held by Algeria. Its capital city is Khartoum and its most populous city is Omdurman (part of the metropolitan area of Khartoum).

The name derives from the Arabic bilād as-sūdān (بلاد السودان), or "The Land of the Blacks". The name is one of various toponyms sharing similar etymologies, in reference to the more or less dark skin of the inhabitants. Prior to this, Sudan was known as Nubia and Ta Nehesi or Ta Seti by Ancient Egyptians named for the Nubian and Medjay archers or Bow men.

UN warns of lab risk, more displacement amid Sudan conflict

By JAMEY KEATEN and SAMY MAGDYan hour ago

GENEVA (AP) — U.N. officials said Tuesday that one side in the Sudan conflict has seized control of a national health lab in the capital of Khartoum that holds biological material, calling it an “extremely dangerous” development.

Which countries are evacuating citizens from Sudan?

today

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — As continued fighting 

raises fears that Sudan could plunge deeper into chaos, foreign governments are scrambling to get their diplomats and other citizens safely out.

US helping from afar as Americans flee fighting in Sudan

 

     Iftar in Omdurman:  Ambassador John Godfrey and several staff from the US Embassy attended their first Ramadan Iftar in Khartoum with family of singer Mayada Gamar Eldin in Abbasiya, Omdurman.  By ZEKE MILLER, AAMER MADHANI and ELLEN KNICKMEYERyesterday

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House said Monday the U.S. is helping from afar as thousands of Americans left behind in Sudan seek to escape fighting in the east African nation, after the U.S....." 

Location: Countrywide  Event: On April 22, 2023, the U.S. Embassy in Khartoum suspended its operations, and the Department of State ordered the departure of U.S. direct hire…

Jews visited the Sudan from remote times.  In 1885, the Mahdi compelled all Jews and Christians to embrace Islam. So much for Dhimmi status and remaining as Jews.  The community dated from the end of the 19th century, but few Jews now live there.   Their descendants should be in Israel.  

Resource:

http://en.wikiipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Muslim-majority_countries

The New Standard Jewish Encyclopedia

wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Sudan