The US military evacuated embassy staff from Sudan's capital, President Joe Biden announced Sunday, as other nations sought to help their Citizens escape deadly fighting between rival generals. France also launched evacuation operations from the northeast African nation, where fighting has entered its second week. Heavy fighting broke out on April 15 between forces loyal to army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and his deputy turned rival Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, who commands the powerful paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). The former allies seized power in a 2021 coup but later fell out in a bitter power struggle. Daglo's RSF emerged from the Janjaweed fighters unleashed in Darfur by former strongman leader Omar al-Bashir, where they were accused of war crimes. The US Under Secretary of State John Bass said that the RSF "cooperated to the extent that they did not fire on our service members" and warned that a coordinated US government effort to evacuate other American citizens was unlikely in the coming

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