Another Afghanistan: Second American Killed As Biden Fails To Take Action In Sudan Leaving Thousands More Stranded

A second American citizen has died in Khartoum, Sudan due to an ongoing power struggle between Sudanese generals as per Just the News. This death was during a 3-day ceasefire brokered by the United States. National Security Council Spokesperson John Kirby told reporters that President Biden had “asked for every conceivable option to help as many Americans as possible.”

An estimated 16,000 American nationals, largely dual citizens, are in the war-torn African country. John Kirby claimed in an interview that “[t]hese are people that grew up in Sudan, work in Sudan, families are in Sudan and they want to stay in Sudan, so it’s a number that is difficult to plan to specifically.” Kirby in that same interview said that “We still have military forces prepositioned in the region ready to respond if need be. But right now, it’s not very safe to try to run some larger evacuation either out of the nearby air base or even just through rotary lift like we did the other night because the fighting is so intense.”

He added that “The safest thing for Americans to do — those who have decided to stay in Sudan despite the warnings to leave — is to shelter in place and to not move around too much in the city of Khartoum.”

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As the Hill recounted there are “[a]t least 500 American citizens had contacted the embassy as of last week, a congressional source told The Hill, with about 55 asking for direct U.S. assistance to leave Khartoum.”

A transitional government has been in power in Sudan since the 2019 ouster of Omar al-Bashir, a military strong man who rose to power during the previous civil war that engulfed the country. Al-Bashir was in the end toppled when his own military lost confidence in him. Since then another military general, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, has been the chairman of the transitional government tasked with “steering the transition to a fully-fledged democracy.” The current power struggle is due to a falling out between General al-Burhan and General Dagalo.

As noted by the DC Enqurier, The Biden administration’s policy here has led some to unfavorably compare the American-Sudanese situation with the botched American withdrawal from Afghanistan.