‘Dozens’ of Americans have expressed interest in leaving Sudan, Blinken says

“Dozens” of Americans have expressed interest in leaving Sudan, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Monday.

Although a number of nations are evacuating their citizens, US officials have repeatedly said they do not plan to evacuate Americans from the country due to conditions on the ground.

National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby told CNN’s “This Morning” Monday the situation in Sudan “is not conducive and not safe to try to conduct some kind of a larger military evacuation of American citizens.”

The United States does not have specific counts of...