Apr 29 U.S. carries out 1st evacuation of American citizens from Sudan conflict By Zeke Miller, Colleen Long, Matthew Lee, Ellen Knickmeyer, Associated Press Hundreds of Americans fleeing two weeks of deadly fighting in Sudan reached the east African nation’s port Saturday in the first U.S.-run evacuation, completing a dangerous land journey under escort of armed drones. Continue reading
Apr 28 Watch 6:12 News Wrap: U.S. begins evacuation of Americans citizens trapped by fighting in Sudan In our news wrap Friday, the U.S. began its overland evacuation of Americans trapped by the conflict in Sudan, Russian missiles and drones rained down on residential areas across Ukraine, two U.S. Army helicopters collided in Alaska killing three soldiers… Continue watching
Apr 28 Heavy clashes rock Sudan’s capital despite fragile truce By Samy Magdy, Associated Press Sudanese residents say heavy explosions and gunfire have rocked parts of Sudan's capital, Khartoum, and its twin city of Omdurman, despite the extension of a fragile truce between the county's rival top generals. Continue reading
Apr 26 Watch 6:07 News Wrap: E. Jean Carroll testifies in federal court saying Trump raped her in 1996 In our news wrap Wednesday, writer E. Jean Carroll took the stand in a civil trial and told a federal court Donald Trump raped her in 1996, fighting flared up around Sudan's capital undermining the latest ceasefire attempt as desperate… Continue watching
Apr 25 Watch 3:38 News Wrap: Washington becomes 10th state banning sale of certain semi-automatic rifles In our news wrap Tuesday, Washington became the tenth U.S. state to ban some semi-automatic rifles, including AR-15s, the weapon used in many mass killings, a state investigator in Alabama testified that a barrage of 89 bullets killed four young… Continue watching
Apr 25 Watch 5:23 Hundreds of thousands flee Sudan as humanitarian situation deteriorates amid violence By Nick Schifrin, Zeba Warsi Hundreds of thousands of Sudanese are fleeing to neighboring countries to escape the violence that has killed more than 400 in the last week and a half. Aid agencies are warning the humanitarian situation is increasingly dire because of a… Continue watching
Apr 25 UN warns of health lab risk, more displacement amid Sudan conflict By Jamey Keaten, Samy Magdy, Associated Press U.N. officials say 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. Continue reading
Apr 25 WATCH: State Department holds briefing as tenuous cease-fire in Sudan enters second day By Associated Press The fighting has plunged Sudan into chaos, pushing the already heavily aid-dependent African nation to the brink of collapse. Continue reading
Apr 25 New 3-day truce marred by gunfire while airlifts of foreigners continues By Samy Magdy, Associated Press Sudan's warring generals have pledged to observe a new three-day truce that was brokered by the United States and Saudi Arabia to try to pull Africa's third-largest nation from the abyss. Continue reading
Apr 24 Watch 11:29 Nations scramble to evacuate their citizens from Sudan as fighting intensifies By Nick Schifrin, Teresa Cebrian Aranda, Dan Sagalyn The U.S. says it is facilitating the evacuation of civilians from Sudan where more than 400 people have died since fighting started 10 days ago. Drones and other military assets are flying over the route north to Egypt, but the… Continue watching