than an hour on the ground they were able to plug some 17 plus embassy staff and their families , plus a small number of foreign nationals, the state department said out of the country and then flying them back, at least to eat the opiate now there were no contacts with any kind of violence in that operation. there have been some unconfirmed reports that it almost simultaneously. almost simultaneously. a french evacuation effort may have come under fire, but that has been unconfirmed at this stage of british special forces and the french special forces evacuated some 100 plus people from their nationalities and other foreigners at the belgium s dutch and even the norwegians are now and germans are now carrying out their efforts. but there are 19,000 potentially americans still stuck. in sudan , many of them dual nationals, not all of them necessarily wanting to be evacuated. but this isn t just focused on khartoum. in terms of the need for evacuation. there is violence spread
son on tv, but you know that child of holocaust was reporting the news. the best revenge. is to survive and thrive. that s why it s so important that we educate and we show the world what was going on, and that s what we re doing. hello again, everyone. thank you so much for joining me this sunday. i m fredricka whitfield and us diplomatic personnel and their families are now out of sudan. they were airlifted to neighboring djibouti in a dramatic overnight evacuation more than 100. us special operations personnel were involved in the extraction. the u. s embassy in her tomb has now suspended operations. violence in sudan broke out more than a week ago. heavy fighting between rival military factions, leaving more than 400 dead and thousands injured. cnn s or in lieberman is at the pentagon for so or in what more are you learning about this operation? this was an operation carried out effectively in the dead of night by a fairly small group of special operations forces right ar
servicemembers and countries of ethiopia. duty at this and sudan. this has cost the lives of hundreds of innocent civilians and unconscionable and it must stop. sudan is entering the second week of violence as forces battle for control of the country. the two sides used to be ally seizing allies together in a coup two years ago. they re fighting over which side s general leads the country s military. the bulge of the fighting is taking place in the sudan can capital city khartoum. additional countries and united nations also mobilizing to remove diplomatic staff. the violence spread to other cities and civilians scrambling to move to safety. travel become increasingly limited. flights have been halted as airports are pummeled by shelter and roadblocks are in place. nation of 45 million people are running out of food and medicine. 2/3 of the sudan hospitals are out of service. the united nations said looters stole food program people. a camp for displaced people was burned.
service members spending an hour on the ground. over 100 u.s. personnel removedd from the capital city of sudan and involved a week of intensive planning. in a statement late last night. president biden thanked unmatch #-d skill of american service members part of that as well as country s of ethiopia and saudi arabia and j j djibouti saying t cost hundreds of lives already and it must stop. the army and para military group rapid support forces battle for control of the country and the two sides were allies working together in seizing power in a coup two years ago and now fighting over which sides general would lead the military. a bulk of the fighting has taken place in cartoom and operations at the embassy have been suspended and they ve mobilized their diplomatic staff and spread to other cities and civilians are left scrambling to move to safety and flights have been halted as the airport has been pummeled and shelling roadblocks in place and it s really terrible to try a
from washington. really good news for the british diplomats an their families. reporter: absolutely. what we ve been hearing is this was a very complex situation with not a whole lot of time to plan but that planning was very intensive, pentagon officials say. they describe the operation as fast and clean. say it was conducted in one movement with service members spending less than an hour on the ground. so under 100 u.s. government personnel were removed from sudan s capital city by way of three helicopters. again, officials say that this was about a week of planning as they saw chaos erupting in sudan. president biden thanked the unmatched skill of service members of getting the this this completed. they confirmed the operations at the u.s. embassy have been temporarily suspended. the president added that this has cost the lives of hundreds of civilians and it must stop. sudan entered the second week of violence as the army and paramilitary group battle for control of the