American teacher escaped Sudan on French evacuation plane, with no help offered back home
They waited, well into the early hours of the morning – before finally getting an email from the US State Department. The message amounted to, “Oh yay, US embassy staff has been evacuated. Private citizens should not expect help,” Welker said.
Working on a way to help people leave overland, says U.S. Secretary of State Blinken.
ADD: New York Times reports:
NAIROBI, Kenya — A convoy of buses carrying about 300 Americans left the war-torn capital of Sudan late Friday, starting a 525-mile journey to the Red Sea that was the United States’ first organized effort to evacuate its citizens from the country.
April 28, 2023Updated 4:34 p.m. ET
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