The Sudanese citizens whose passports were being processed for visas when the fighting started, according to the U.S. Embassy there, have had their passports burned.
In light of the country’s continued violence between the opposing military government groups, the U.S. Mission in Khartoum issued a statement on Friday explaining its action.
Parts of the statement stated that “Our Embassy in Khartoum had passports of Sudanese and other third country nationals who were in the process of applying for visas as well as passports of U.S. citizens applying for consular services.” “Because the security situation prevented us from returning those passports in a secure manner. We followed protocol and destroyed them rather than leaving them unattended,”
The memo said, “It is standard operating procedure during a drawdown to take precautions to not leave behind any documents, materials, or information that could fall into the wrong hands and be misused.”
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In response to the rising violence, the American government closed its embassy in the country of North Africa and withdrew its ambassadors, staff members, and citizens.
Since April, Sudan has been engulfed in violence due to differences between the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) commander, Mohamed Hamdan “Hemedti” Dagalo, and the Sudanese military, commanded by Abdel Fattah al-Burhan.
In the struggle that has transformed the streets of the nation’s capital, Khartoum, and other locations into war zones, more than 500 people have been killed, and over 4000 more have been injured.
